20171010 ntwa annual report

2016-17

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The National Trust of Western Australia acknowledges its properties are situated on Aboriginal land across the State.

The National Trust recognises Aboriginal people remain the cultural and spiritual custodians of their land and continue to practise their values, languages, beliefs and knowledge. The National Trust is committed to working with Aboriginal people to ensure these practices are recognised and included in the conservation and interpretation of its properties and Aboriginal people are consulted and involved in the development of Trust projects and programs.

Front cover: Under the roof, hidden spaces, Peninsula Farm. Photo: Sabine Albers.

Inside cover: Morning room, Woodbridge. Photo: Sabine Albers.

Music room, Woodbridge. Photo: Sabine Albers.

Table of Contents

01 Statement of Compliance 02 Overview of Agency

06 Other Disclosures 58

Employment and Industrial Relations

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Governance Disclosures

59

Other Legal Requirements

59

Government Policy Requirements

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President’s Report

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Executive Summary

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Operational Structure 2016–17

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Organisation Structure 2016–17

07 Appendices

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Volunteers and Committees

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1. Bequests and Donations

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Chairman’s Report 2016-17

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2. Sponsorships and Grants

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3. Honorary and Life Members

14 Council 22

Senior Officers

• Honorary and Life Members

23 Key Legislation

• Committees of Council Members

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• Active Volunteers

A Legacy of Community Benefit

03 Significant Issues Impacting the Agency

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4. Attendance at Council and Committee Meetings

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5. Honour and Award Recipients 2016 • Honour and Award Recipients (volunteers) 2016

04 Performance Management Framework 29 Introduction 29

Strategic Goals

• Special Awards 2016 72

6. Classified Places and Objects

05 Agency Performance

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7. National Trust Managed Properties 2016–17

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Conservation, Interpretation and Collections

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8. Heritage Appeals 2016–2017

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Heritage Services

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Aboriginal Foundations

47

Community Engagement

52

Education and Learning

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Natural Heritage

08 Financials 77

Independent Auditor’s Report

81

Certification of Performance Indicators

82

Key Performance Indicators

89

Certification of Financial Statements

90

Statement of Comprehensive Income

91

Statement of Financial Position

92

Statement of Changes in Equity

93

Statement of Cash Flows

94

Notes to the Financial Statements

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STATEMENT OF COMPLIANCE

Statement of Compliance

To Hon David Templeman MLA Minister for Local Government; Heritage; Culture and the Arts

In accordance with section 61 of the Financial Management Act 2006, The National Trust hereby submits for your information and presentation to Parliament, the Annual Report of The National Trust of Australia (WA) for the financial year ended 30 June 2017.

The Annual Report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions of the Financial Management Act 2006.

Julian Donaldson Chief Executive Officer 14 September 2017

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Inside looking out, Peninsula Farm. Photo: Sabine Albers.

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OVERVIEW OF AGENCY

President’s Report

President’s Report

Chairman’s Report 2016–17

Executive Summary

Council

Operational Structure 2016–17

Senior Officers

Organisation Structure 2016–17

Key Legislation

Volunteers and Committees

A Legacy of Community Benefit

I am pleased to present my report for 2016-2017 in this, my sixth year as President of the National Trust of Western Australia.

I have always maintained that as a Trust for both government and the community, the National Trust of Western Australia continues to provide an amazing diversity of services.

The Trust works to preserve and protect important places, customs and values from the past, so that they can be enjoyed by present and future generations. This work enables continuity of culture and it therefore becomes even more important to secure resources for programs across the spectrum of cultural heritage through key partnerships which enable the Trust to deliver significant and consistent high quality outcomes.

There have been many outstanding achievements over the past year. With more National Trust originated content, the Heritage Festival has not only increased our profile, but it has also provided new opportunities for people to participate in and value our heritage.

In addition, there has been an increased focus on the quality of presentation for public programs including, among others, Curtin Family Home Lecture, CY O’Connor Lecture, PIAF events in Albany, public programs at Gallop House in association with the composer in residence, the ANZAC Day events at Peninsula Farm and Woodbridge, the Christmas Carols at Peninsula Farm and the NAIDOC Week event at 57 Murray Street.

The commissioning of the Fanny Balbuk project, as the Heritage Festival launch piece, was an imaginative and layered project which has contributed much to the recognition of a female voice in Noongar heritage.

The National Trust continues to enhance its core work, including running a highly successful education program, providing specialist heritage services advice, managing appeals and Aboriginal foundations, caring for our places, activating the heritage values of the Golden Pipeline, providing valuable prisoner training conservation programs, managing an extensive covenanting program and working towards successful adaptive reuse projects with the Artillery Drill Hall and the Luisini Winery.

The National Trust takes on the challenges of working with heritage places and collections because it believes they should be cared for on behalf of future generations. Without the National Trust, many of these places would deteriorate or be irreversibly changed. After all, it is important to remember these are all State assets which belong to the community.

by example and to provide important leadership to many others. This commitment is reflected through the work of its Foundations, the innovation generated by the National Trust, since 2007, in partnership with numerous Aboriginal groups.

The Foundations allow for monies to be significantly invested into conserving and interpreting Aboriginal heritage and maintaining this important cultural patrimony in Western Australia. The National Trust recognises the excellent support received from the resources sector including Fortescue Metals Group, Atlas Iron Ore, Roy Hill and BHP Billiton.

It is also important to recognise the contribution made by every member of Council who gives of their time voluntarily and who provides a depth of The National Trust knowledge and continues to enhance experience at all levels. core work, including

its

On behalf of running a highly successful the National education program.

Trust, I would like to commend the Chief Executive Officer, Julian Donaldson, and his team for maintaining such high standards in all areas of service.

I acknowledge there are many significant issues and challenges to be faced, including the increasing demands for National Trust services. We hope to see our members and supporters working with us to ensure this great work can continue efficiently and effectively. We need your support more than ever before to enhance our ability to meet the many challenges that lie ahead.

Please remember that the National Trust works with, and for others, not for itself. The National Trust is working for the community of Western Australia.

I commend the 2016–2017 Annual Report to you.

Thank you Max Kay AM CitWA President

The National Trust maintains its firm commitment to conserve and interpret Aboriginal heritage. Ours was the first National Trust in Australia to develop a Reconciliation Action Plan and to commit to reconciliation, and it continues to lead Kitchen, Woodbridge. Photo: Sabine Albers.

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Executive Summary

Operational Structure 2016–2017

Through its Strategic Plan 2016–2020, the National Trust of Western Australia aspires to awaken the community to the value of heritage.

Enabling Legislation The National Trust of Australia (WA) was established in 1959 and in 1964 was constituted as a statutory authority under the National Trust of Australia (WA) Act 1964. The National Trust of Australia (WA) is a Trust for the Government and the community and is a memberfocused not-for-profit organisation.

From the beginning, the National Trust of Western Australia has been a community based organisation.

It was founded in 1959 by a group of concerned citizens who identified the need to promote heritage conservation. This plan aims to continue the great work of all who have contributed to the mission of the National Trust in Western Australia.

The Strategic Plan sets out to achieve this by connecting Western Australians with the story of their heritage. The stories found in the rich and diverse natural, Aboriginal and historic heritage are the embodiment of our memories – the vast collection of things, both tangible and intangible – that have survived and we have chosen to keep.

Heritage forms a storyline that ties generations together.

Heritage connects the generations. It is a conduit to past generations who shaped the environment in which we live and the society we share; it is a bond between those of us who now inhabit these same spaces and reflect on how we can make sense of our place in the world; and it is a bridge to the future through the legacy we leave for future generations to come. They will be just as interested as we are in forming a sense of their identity from the tangible and intangible inheritance.

The Trust works to preserve and protect important places, customs, and values from the past so they can be enjoyed by present and future generations. This work enables continuity of culture.

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By awakening people to the value of heritage the Trust aims to enhance people’s understanding of why heritage is important, how it enables us to explore our identity and our place in the world and how an understanding of the value of heritage contributes to a sense of well being in society.

The Trust will achieve this through activities which conserve the places in its care; by educating people about the value of heritage; by raising awareness for the vital role of heritage in our society; by engaging the community; by making places accessible; by finding new compatible uses; and by encouraging participation in heritage based experiences.

The work done by the Council of the National Trust, associated committees and the hundreds of volunteers in all aspects of the National Trust’s work is sincerely valued.

Equally valued is the work of the National Trust staff who continue to give consistently and who demonstrate their deep and genuine commitment to conserving and interpreting Western Australia’s heritage. Their understanding of and adherence to the highest professional standards ensures quality heritage outputs and these have been significant in 2016–2017, as clearly outlined in this Annual Report. The scope of works includes commercial projects, grant funded projects, interpretation and orientation projects, prisoner training projects, conservation works, education and learning programs and public events and programs.

Beneficiaries The Trust carries out its activities for the benefit of all Western Australians.

Responsible Minister

Our Goals

The National Trust of Australia (WA) is accountable to the Parliament of Western Australia through the Minister for Local Government; Heritage; Culture and The Arts the Hon. David Templeman MLA. It is through the Minister that an annual report is submitted and accountability is exercised for appropriations.

Goal 1

The National Trust of Western Australia will be valued by more people.

Goal 2

Competitively position the Trust in the heritage space.

Goal 3

Stimulate appetite to support the Trust.

Goal 4

A sustainable Trust.

Goal 5

Manage the Trust with efficiency effectiveness and a customer focus.

Vision Wallpaper c1980s, Peninsula Farm. Photo: Sabine Albers.

In addition the Trust team believes it is essential to act with integrity, to display respect at all times, to be accountable and to be professional in all our dealings.

A Western Australian community valuing and conserving its natural, Aboriginal and historic heritage for the wellbeing of current and future generations.

Mission The National Trust of Australia (WA) will engage and inspire community support for the conservation of our natural, Aboriginal and historic heritage for the present and the future.

Accountability and Transparency The National Trust will report its outcomes in all of the key areas in an open and transparent manner in concise and clear English.

Values

The National Trust will develop, maintain, and enhance activities which match the needs and objectives of the Trust with the knowledge, skills, experience, expertise and enthusiasm of professional staff and volunteers.

The Trust subscribes to these core values:

Services

Excellence

The National Trust of Australia (WA) is a statutory authority that delivers heritage services through whole of government appropriations. The organisation delivers heritage services in the areas of Conservation, Stewardship, Education, Interpretation, Planning and Management.

We aim for excellence in all we do and to deliver best practice outcomes.

Collaboration We will work together and form partnerships with people and organisations who share our vision.

Innovation

We will strive for new ideas, find new ways of working, develop new strategies and seek out new opportunities.

Courage

We will act according to our beliefs as expressed by our mission and vision.

We will act with commitment, understand risk and be bold in our ambition.

Inspiration

It is essential that the fruits of our work inspire people to value heritage. We should act to inspire confidence in what we want to achieve for heritage in Western Australia.

Patron Her Excellency the Honourable Kerry Sanderson AC.

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Organisation Structure 2016–2017

Organisation Structure 2016–2017

Council Executive

Finance and Audit Chief Executive Officer Deputy Chief Executive Officer Area 1

Area 3

Finance, Audit and Administration

Conservation and Stewardship

Director: Finance, Audit and Administration

Director: Conservation and Stewardship

Co-ordinator, Administrative and Membership Services

Co-ordinator, Finance and Business Services

Executive Support Officer (CEO and D/CEO)

Finance Officer

Administration Support 1 (Area 2) Administration Support 2 (Area 3) Customer Service Officer 1 (Reception/Membership) Customer Service Officer 2

Conservation Architect Conservation Architect Landscape Architect

Accounts Payable/Human Resources

Conservation Project Officer

Accounts Receivable/ Membership

Property Information Systems Development Officer

Purchasing Officer/ Administration

Property Co-ordinator, Conservation and Stewardship

Co-ordinator Covenanting

Covenanting Officer, Assessments Covenanting Officer: Covenanting Operations

Covenanting Officer

Archivist/Administration Support Area 2 Education, Interpretation and Heritage Services Manager: Education and Learning

Manager: Interpretation

Historian, Special Projects

Manager: Heritage Services

Communication Media Coordinator

Key

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“Mrs Beeton’s Household Management”, Woodbridge. Photo: Sabine Albers.

Permanent Positions

Education Officer 1

Contract Positions

Education Officer 2

Heritage Officer

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Volunteers and Committees

Volunteers and Committees

The National Trust relies on the skills and commitment of more than 500 registered volunteers to enable the organisation to carry out its role.

The National Trust relies on the skills and commitment of more than 500 registered volunteers to enable the organisation to carry out its role in conserving and interpreting the heritage of Western Australia. Volunteers bring community spirit to their work with the National Trust embracing ideals of giving, caring and sharing for future generations. Volunteers contributed over 12,387 registered hours to the National Trust, at an estimated value of $371,625.

The National Trust recruits and provides training for volunteers on an ongoing basis. Induction and training programs promote the concept of mutual obligation to ensure the needs and expectations of both volunteers and the National Trust are fulfilled.

The National Trust recognises the commitment of its volunteers through an annual volunteer day, invitations to events, awards for length of service and public acknowledgements.

The National Trust recruits and provides training for volunteers on an ongoing basis.

The National Trust has ten committees endorsed by the Council. Roles on these committees are filled on an honorary basis and provide the organisation with a broad and diverse base of knowledge and expertise. A comprehensive list of Committees and Volunteers can be found in Appendix 3.

It is a very important fact that all Councillors of the National Trust are volunteers. The expertise and experience of these extremely dedicated people have successfully guided the National Trust in Western Australia for over fifty years.

It is particularly fitting to acknowledge and thank Officers of the Council, Chairman and Deputy Chairman, Officers of the Trust, President, Vice Presidents, Treasurer and Secretary as well as members of the Executive and the Finance & Audit Committee for their commitment.

It is also important to note that thousands of hours of unpaid work is voluntarily given by salaried staff. This reflects their total commitment to the values of the National Trust.

Woodbridge Monthly Meeting. Photo: NTWA.

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Chairman’s Report 2016–2017

Every one of these reports which I write at this time of the year presents me with the same dilemma - how to deal adequately with the important events of the year while keeping​t​ he​​document​o ​ f​​ manageable​s​ ize.

Again, I will start with the people who are the decisionmakers for the Trust and those who administer its affairs, because we are blessed by having available people who​​ bring​ ​to​ t​ heir​ ​respective​ ​roles​ ​great​ ​skill​ ​and​ ​dedication,​ ​ energy​ a​ nd​ ​enthusiasm.

I refer, among too many to name all those who should be recognised by name, to the President, Mr Max Kay AM CitWA; the Vice Presidents, Ms Christine Lewis and Colonel (Ret’d) Robert Mitchell; the Deputy Chair, the Hon Ken Michael AC; the Treasurer, Mr John Palermo; the Secretary, Ms Helen Cogan; the Councillors and those​ ​who​ ​serve​ ​on​ ​committees​ ​ of​ ​the​ ​Trust.

Some are newly appointed or elected to office and are already making helpful contributions to the affairs of the Trust. Others are long-serving members and office holders who astonish me by their willingness to step up to be involved for term after term.

Of course, the Trust could not function effectively without the contribution of our relatively few paid staff and the very many volunteers, attached to particular places and involved in particular functions, without whom we would simply fade away as an organisation which has pretensions to be the leading heritage agency in the State, an observation I make with apologies to the Heritage Council, chaired by Ms Anne Arnold and the Heritage Office, of which the very effective CEO is Mr Graeme Gammie.

The Trust works in close co-operation with them and in my view, both agencies are stronger and more influential in their capacity to discharge their functions by that close association. I am pleased to report that the previous close relationship we enjoyed with the former Minister, the Hon Albert Jacob MLA, has continued to be evident in our dealings with the new Minister, the Hon David Templeman MLA, and his​​staff.

Chairman’s Report 2016–2017

I set great store by that situation, for the capacity it confers upon the Trust to discharge its remit to foster the preservation of places of heritage value. This enhances the education about and enjoyment of the legacy bequeathed to us by our forbears, both indigenous and otherwise, in respect of both built places and natural environments.

I am conscious of the fact that I have thus far said nothing about our administration, so ably lead by the CEO, Mr Julian Donaldson, and the Deputy CEO, Mr Enzo Sirna, who shoulders responsibility for the nationally significant education about heritage matters in respect of which the Trust takes a leading role, not the least by its presentation​​ of​ ​the​ ​annual​ ​Australian​ ​Heritage​ ​Festival.

Under Mr Donaldson the Trust has been reorganised into a more effective administrative structure and its focus has been sharpened to make more effective its limited capacities. I include in that observation of the Trust’s engagement in the heritage values attached to places in respect of which we have no direct interest, for example the Beeliar wetlands and the new museum, in which we became involved as a voice for the preservation of clear values despite our lack of a specific connection,​ ​by​ ​management​ ​order​ ​or​ ​otherwise,​ ​to​ ​the​ ​place.

Although I have a deep and long-standing interest in the preservation, interpretation and adaptive reuse of the many places of heritage significance in our State, I am not an expert in how to best bring that about. I am an administrator who seeks to enhance​ ​the​ ​functional​ ​capacity​ ​of​ ​the​ T​ rust.

I continue to be surprised, in the most pleasant way possible, of the Trust’s great capacity to achieve far more than its meagre resources should allow.

We think that a funding model of that type will, perhaps more effectively for the first time, enable the Trust to pursue grants designed to fund the efforts of the administration and most importantly, volunteers, to undertake ongoing maintenance and development of our places, such as the Old Farm Strawberry Hill, Peninsula Farm,​​Woodbridge,​​ the​ ​East​ ​Perth​ ​Cemeteries,​ ​Old​ ​Blythewood,​ G ​ reenough,​ ​etc.

I am convinced that the Trust must foster opportunities to function in co-operation with other agencies. The NAIDOC week events, recently held, reaffirmed my belief in the value of this approach. For some time the Trust has been working in the Greenough area with prisoners from the Geraldton Regional Prison, who have been doing valuable restoration stonework and other work of value to the place for which we have responsibility. It is good for the Trust and good rehabilitative work for the prisoners.

I continue to be surprised, in the most pleasant way possible, of the Trust’s great capacity to achieve far more than its meagre resources should allow. This is due in the main, to the great belief in the heritage cause shared by its members, Council, volunteers and staff. Whilst we have achieved much in the last year, we encourage ourselves consistently to find more ways to expand our capacity because the need is so great. To all those who support the Trust, our thanks go to you, and we invite your continued support in the coming year.

The​ ​Hon​ ​Michael​ ​Murray​ ​AM​ ​QC Chairman

In that respect, I have been pleased to note what seems to me to be a significant change in the terms upon which we may receive funding for specific projects. We were grateful to receive significant assistance from Lotterywest in the preservation and future use of Ellensbrook, a place of major historical significance, not only in respect of its use as a farm and early community, but​ ​as​ ​a​ ​place​ ​of​ ​ongoing​ s​ ignificance​ ​ to​ Aboriginal​ ​people.

The funds were provided upon the acceptance of a general submission by the Trust, and their detailed application was left to the decision of the Trust and Aboriginal interests.

We think that is the proper role of the funder, leaving to the agencies concerned the decisions to be made as to the most effective use of the monies provided.

Quiet spaces, Woodbridge. Photo: Sabine Albers.

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Council

Council

Hon Michael Murray AM QC

Hon Dr Ken Michael AC

LLB (UWA) PhD

BEng (UWA) PhD

Chairman Term expires: 2019

Deputy Chair Term expires: 2017

Hon Michael Murray AM QC graduated LLB at UWA in 1964. He was appointed as Crown Prosecutor for WA in 1973 (DPP) and as WA Crown Counsel in 1980. He was appointed a QC in 1984.

In 1990, he was appointed to the Supreme Court of WA. He became the senior judge of the court and from time to time served as Acting Chief Justice and Administrator of the State. He retired from the bench when he turned 70, in 2012.

Hon Michael Murray served on the council of the Law Society of WA (President in 1988) and on other professional associations. He is a life member of the Law Society and the WA Bar Association.

For 9 years he was on the Senate of Murdoch University, for 6 years as Pro-Chancellor. He now holds a position as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Murdoch and was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Laws for his service to legal education. He serves on the organising committee of the Murdoch University alumni association, the Banksia Association.

Hon Michael Murray is the Parliamentary Inspector of the Corruption and Crime Commission and Chairman of the Supervised Release Review Board (juvenile parole). He was awarded an AM for service to the law, education and the community.

He is grateful in retirement from the bench to have the opportunity to pursue his interest in historical and environmental preservation as Chairman of the Council and Executive of the National Trust of WA. National Trust Member since 1997.

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Hon Dr Ken Michael AC was installed as the thirtieth Governor of Western Australia on 18 January 2006, retiring from this position in May 2011.

He was educated at Highgate Primary School, Perth Boys’ School and Perth Modern School. He graduated in civil engineering from The University of Western Australia and completed his PhD degree at Imperial College of Science and Technology in London.

Dr Michael served as Commissioner of Main Roads and Public Service Commissioner. He was Chancellor of The University of Western Australia, Chair of the East Perth Redevelopment Authority, Chair of the Western Australian Museum and a member of the Economic Regulation Authority.

Dr Michael has made a significant contribution in many areas, including public service, engineering, academia and in general, to the Western Australian community. He continues his support of the community in his retired capacity. He is currently Chair and President of the Western Australian Cricket Association (WACA), Chair of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), as well as being involved in a number of other community based activities.

He has received a number of awards in recognition of his contribution to his profession and the community. He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1996 and Companion of the Order of Australia in the 2006 Australia Day Honours.

National Trust Member since 2015.

Mr Max Kay AM CitWA President Term expires: 2019

Ms Christine Lewis

Mr John Palermo

Ms Helen Cogan

B Ed in Art (UNSW) M Ed Mngmnt (UWA)

BBus FCA AGIA

LLB (UWA) LLB (Wits)

Vice President Term expires: 2017

Treasurer Term expires: 2018

Secretary Term expires: 2017

Mr Max Kay AM CitWA arrived in Perth from Scotland in 1967 and soon became one of Western Australia’s most sought after performers. In January 2001, he closed the Civic Theatre to pursue other goals, of a community nature, by concentrating on various charitable causes that he had helped throughout his business career and running for the City of Perth Council to which he was elected.

Ms Christine Lewis has been involved with the National Trust movement since the early 1980s, when she first joined in New South Wales. She was also a Trust member in the ACT where she served on the Education and Culture Committee from 1987 to 1990, and worked as a Trust volunteer organising Heritage Week activities, seminars and conferences.

Mr John Palermo is a Partner with Palermo Chartered Accountants, Board member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, Lifeline (WA) and the Royal Perth Hospital Medical Research Foundation.

Ms Helen Cogan has worked as a solicitor for both government and private firms around the world (including the legal department of The National Trust in the United Kingdom).

In June 2001, Mr Kay’s contribution to the entertainment and hospitality industry was recognised when he was awarded the Citizen of the Year for the Arts, Culture and Entertainment category. In the same year, he was thrilled to receive the Premier’s award for “Legend of the Hospitality Industry”.

Ms Lewis is a Trust member in Western Australia and was appointed to the Council in May 2012. She holds the degrees of Bachelor of Education in Art (UNSW) and Master of Education Management (UWA).

He earned his highest accolade in January 2003, when he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for services to the entertainment industry and for charitable works. That same year he was proud to be one of 1300 Australians to receive the Prime Minister’s Centennial Medal.

Mr Kay was always extremely grateful to have been awarded The Vietnam Logistic Support Medal and a special Citation from the Commander of the American Defence Force, General Abrahams, for his services in entertaining troops from both countries as an initiative of the Australian Government.

Mr Palermo’s areas of expertise are in financial and corporate accounting and strategic business management.

National Trust Member since 2005.

In 2005, Ms Cogan retired from the State Solicitor’s Office. Ms Cogan has served as the Secretary on the National Trust Council since 2006 and is a member of the Executive Committee.

National Trust Member since 2005.

She is an experienced museum and heritage professional based in Perth, having previously worked for the ACT Heritage Committee in Canberra (1987–90), and at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney (1990–95).

Ms Lewis has been employed in a curatorial role at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery (UWA) 1997–98 and then for ten years as Registrar and Manager Assessment and Registration at the WA State Office of Heritage.

From 2007–2014, she has worked in the area of Aboriginal heritage at the Department of Aboriginal Affairs.

National Trust Member since 1981.

Mr Kay has been a tireless worker for the community, sitting on many boards and committees and devoting time to his favourite charities.

National Trust Member since 2009.

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Council

Council

Dr Ken Collins AM CStJ CitWA

Mr Roger Jennings

Mr Grant Godfrey

Mr Graham Goerke

Prof Jenny Gregory AM

Colonel (Ret’d) Robert Mitchell

MB BS

MA (Cantab) EurChem CChem FRSC

BEc (Hons) MBA ACIS

B.JURIS, LLB, GAICD

FRHS MPHA MICOMOS BA (Hons) PhD

CFD UE MA GAICD

Councillor Term expires: 2017

Councillor Term expires: 2017

Councillor Term expires: 2019

Councillor Term expires: 2017

Councillor Term expires: 2019

Vice President Term expires: 2018

A retired General Medical Practitioner, Dr Ken Collins AM CStJ CitWA has a 50 year history of service through Rotary International having served as a Director of the International Board and a Trustee of the Rotary Foundation.

He has also served as Chairman of the Medic Alert Council of WA, Chairman of the Australian Rotary Foundation Trust, Commissioner of St John Ambulance Volunteer First Aid Service, Director of Interplast Australia, Director of Australian Rotary Health Research Fund and Chairman of the Ethics Committee of Lighthouse Laboratories.

A retired British Civil Servant and Diplomat who worked in the government healthcare field with a background in quality management and science policy, Mr Roger Jennings has had a keen interest in architecture, design and heritage preservation for over forty years and has been a member of National Trust organisations in the UK, USA, Malta and Australia.

Mr Graham Goerke practised as a property lawyer at Jackson McDonald for over 30 years until the end of 2015.

He was chair of the partnership board for 10 years from 2001 and head of the commercial/property practice team from 1995.

Emeritus Professor Jenny Gregory AM researches in the fields of heritage and history at The University of Western Australia and is currently President of the History Council of WA and a member of the Australia Day Council (WA).

Mr Goerke was a member of the Division Council of the Property Council in WA for over 12 years; an Adjunct Professor for six years with the law school of Murdoch University; and has been a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors since 1991.

At UWA, she was Director of the Centre for WA History and served as Head of the School of Humanities (2009–15) and Chair of History (2007–08).

In the heritage field, she was Chair of the National Trust of Australia (WA) (2007–10) and past President (1998–2007), Deputy Chair of the Australian Council of National Trusts (2008–10), and also a former Councillor of the Heritage Council of WA.

In 1991 he was named the WA Citizen of the Year for Community Service, in 1994 he was made a member of the Order of Australia and awarded the Australian Medical Association Award for Outstanding Service to Medicine. In 2001 he was awarded the Centenary of Federation Medal and in 2007 was the West Australian Senior Australian of the Year.

National Trust Member since 2008.

Mr Jennings has been actively involved in volunteering with several charitable organisations for the past twenty years and has worked as a volunteer administrator with the National Trust of Australia (WA) for eleven years, and has been a member of Council since 2008.

Over the past six years he has been developing and maintaining nearly twenty websites for the Trust’s Australian Schools National Curriculum Programs.

National Trust Member since 2005.

Mr Grant Godfrey is a business finance and strategic planning specialist with experience across several industry sectors. He has worked at senior levels in major corporations in the finance industry.

Mr Godfrey is currently working with the University of Western Australia in a senior project role.

He is a past Vice President and Treasurer of the National Trust Council and is currently a member of the Trust’s Executive Committee and is the Chair of Trust’s Finance and Audit Committee.

National Trust Member since 2007.

He has been a Council and Board member of Edmund Rice Education Australia (EREA) since 2006 and Board Chair since 2013. EREA currently governs over 50 Catholic schools and flexible learning centres around Australia. Mr Goerke has also been a member of the Board of the WA Sports Centre Trust (VenuesWest) since 2007. Under its governing legislation, VenuesWest is currently responsible for 14 sports and entertainment venues on behalf of the State.

Her contribution to heritage and history was recognised when she was made a Member of the Order of Australia (2010), a Champion of the Built Environment (2004), by the award of a Centenary of Federation Medal (2001), the National Trust’s Stirling Award (2011) and its Award for 20 years’ voluntary service (2016).

After serving in the Canadian Forces on NATO, peacekeeping and program management duties, Mr Robert Mitchell was employed in the health promotion and aged care sector in Western Australia.

He has been actively involved with National Trust governance, properties, programs and people for over 25 years. In 2012 he was awarded the Heritage Council award for outstanding commitment to heritage, particularly to fostering the growth and sustainability of a wide range of heritage organisations, and the development and promotion of innovative projects and practices.

He is currently the Executive Officer of Museums Australia WA and Curator of the Army Museum of WA. National Trust Member since 1990.

National Trust Member since 1989.

Mr Goerke is a member of the Executive Committee and the National Trust of Western Australia nominated Director on the Australian Council of National Trusts.

National Trust Member since 2015.

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Council

Council

Mr Geoff Moor B.AppSc PHF

Councillor Term expires: 2019

Ms Irene Stainton Councillor Resigned June 2017

Dr Robyn Taylor

Hon Cheryl Edwardes AM

Prof Jane Lydon

MPHA

GAICD LLM, BA, LLB, Bachelor of Jurisprudence

MA PhD (ANU)

BSc MBA GAICD

Councillor Term expires: 2018

Appointed Councillor – The Premier’s Representative Resigned June 2017

Appointed Councillor – Senate of University of Western Australia Term expires: 2019

Appointed Councillor - Executive Director Destination Development, Tourism WA Term expires: 2019

Prof Jane Lydon is the Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History and currently serves as Deputy Head of School (Research), School of Humanities, at the University of Western Australia. She was educated at the University of Sydney and the Australian National University.

Ms Derryn Belford joined Tourism WA in 2008. She led the development of the State Government Strategy for Tourism 2020, which was launched in 2012, and in 2013 developed the initial business plan for the iconic National ANZAC Centre in Albany. Since 2013 she has headed up the Destination Development division, which focuses on supply side issues in the WA tourism industry. It works across government and industry to determine the needs of destinations in terms of access, accommodation, attractions and amenities, and seeks to facilitate the filling of gaps through private and public investment.

Mr Geoff Moor has been a member of the Trust since 2001 and was previously a Council member 2002-2005 and is a member of the Classifications Committee.

Ms Irene Stainton has over 30 years’ experience as a State Public Servant, where much of that time was spent in Executive and Senior Management positions.

Dr Robyn Taylor works as a historian, art curator and heritage consultant.

Her areas of interest include Western Australian history, art, architecture and cultural heritage.

In everyday life he is employed in local government and oversees planning, development and operation of heritage facilities and programs.

He holds positions with the Canning Agricultural Society; Coastal Group of agricultural societies; Veteran Car Club of WA; Council of Motoring Clubs of WA, History Council of WA, and memberships of Royal WA Historical Society, British Printing Society; and various collectors clubs and community groups. He is a life member of several of these organisations and has been awarded a Paul Harris Fellow by two Rotary Clubs.

She has an extensive background in public housing, welfare services and has long been an advocate for Aboriginal cultural heritage, holding a series of advisory positions at State and national levels.

Dr Taylor has served on the Trust Council since 1993, and the Classification Standing Committee since its formation in 1994.

National Trust Member since 2001.

Since leaving the public service, Ms Stainton was employed as the General Manager of one of the largest, WA based heritage consulting companies and is now employed as the Manager of Aboriginal Affairs at INPEX. She has extensive knowledge in heritage and culture and was the first Aboriginal person to become Registrar of Aboriginal Sites in Western Australia, prior to being appointed Chairperson of the Aboriginal Cultural Material Committee in the Aboriginal Affairs Department.

Ms Stainton serves as a Trustee of the Western Australian Museum and is the Chairperson of its Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Advisory Committee and is a member of the Indigenous Advisory Committee of the National Museum of Australia. She is a past member of the Commonwealth Government’s Advisory Committee responsible for the repatriation of Indigenous Cultural Material, and until recently, the Deputy Chairperson of the Aboriginal Lands Trust. She is a past finalist in the Telstra Business Woman of the Year Awards.

She was a councillor on the inaugural Heritage Council of Western Australia from 1991 to 1993.

In 2004 she received a Champion Award for the Year of Built Environment and in 2005, the National Trust’s Stirling Award for over 15 years voluntary service.

In April 2012, Dr Taylor received a ‘High Commendation for Outstanding Contribution to Heritage by a Professional in the Heritage Industry’ in the Western Australian Heritage Awards.

National Trust Member since 1982.

Hon Cheryl Edwardes AM is Chairman of ASX listed company Vimy Resources Limited. Mrs Edwardes is also Chair of the Port Hedland International Airport, and Non-Executive Director in Atlas Iron Limited and AusCann.

A solicitor by profession, Mrs Edwardes is a former Minister in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly with extensive experience and knowledge of WA’s legal and regulatory framework relating to mining projects, environmental, native title, heritage and land access. Mrs Edwardes assists the clients of FTI Consulting with a range of complex statutory approvals required for resources and infrastructure projects.

During her political career, Mrs Edwardes held positions including WA Attorney General, Minister for the Environment and Minister for Labour Relations. She has broad experience and networks within China’s business community.

She has worked in the heritage sphere for thirty years, including as the inaugural archaeologist for the Sydney Cove Authority, responsible for the Rocks area of Sydney, between 1993–1995, and convenor of an inaugural heritage program at La Trobe University in 2001. Her research and teaching focuses on Australian history and its legacies in the present. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, a Life Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, and a Member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. She is on the editorial boards of a number of international and Australian journals.

Ms Derryn Belford

Ms Belford is an active participant on a range of cross-government committees and working groups that impact the tourism industry in WA, and is a current Board Member of All Saints’ College.

National Trust Member since 2016.

National Trust Member since 2016.

National Trust Member since 2015.

National Trust Member since 2011.

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Council

Dr Hugo Bekle

Dr Steve Errington

Mr Max Hipkins

BA (Hons), PhD, FIAG, MPIA, MACE

JP BSc (Hons) PhD FRACI MRSC FRWAHS

MSc BTRP BArch DipAdmin

Appointed Councillor – Royal Society of Western Australia Term expires: 2017

Appointed Councillor – The Royal Western Australian Historical Society Term expires: 2017

Appointed Councillor – Western Australian Local Government Association Term expires: 2018

Dr Hugo Bekle has worked at four universities over 32 years and operates his own consultancy, EnviroSystems.

His teaching, research and consultancy focuses on biogeography, environmental science, water and wetlands, salinity, urban and regional planning, sustainability and Indigenous land management practices. In 2012 he was awarded a Fellowship of the Institute of Australian Geographers in recognition of his achievement, leadership and excellence in the field.

Dr Bekle is the author/co-author, of 33 publications and 26 conference papers. In particular his knowledge of the ecology and migration of water birds has been recognised nationally and internationally.

In 2014, he was awarded the Leonard Slater Visiting Fellowship at Durham University. His professional contributions also extend to considerable service to community organisations, government agencies and representative professional bodies. He has also been recognised by various awards relating to his teaching, including the Sybe Jongeling Award (2006). He has also been recognised by various awards for community service, teaching, research and publication (e.g., The Salinity Crisis: Landscapes, Communities and Politics was shortlisted as a finalist for the Premier’s Book Awards).

Dr Steve Errington is an Adjunct Associate Professor, previously Head, of the Department of Chemistry at Curtin University.

He has been a member of the Royal WA Historical Society since 1963 and is currently Vice President.

He has research interests in various aspects of WA history – chemistry, early colonial and sport.

Dr Errington is also a voluntary guide at the Round House Fremantle, the Old Mill South Perth and on Rottnest Island.

National Trust Member since 2008.

Mr Max Hipkins is a planner, architect and engineer. With a career as a consultant and local government director, he has experience in heritage assessment, conservation plan preparation and compilation of municipal inventories.

Mr Hipkins was a foundation member of the Swan River Trust, is a past National Chairman of the Australian Institute of Urban Studies and has held the position of Director of Planning at the City of Perth.

He is currently a member of CityVision and is the Mayor of the City of Nedlands.

National Trust Member since 1994.

Mrs Jocelyn Mitchell

Appointed Councillor – The Country Women’s Association of WA Term expires: 2018

Mrs Jocelyn Mitchell is a native of Mt Barker and was educated at St Mary’s Church of England School in West Perth. She completed the Museum Studies Certificate Course at Edith Cowan University in 2009. She has extensive family linkages across rural Western Australia and is a member of the Swan River Pioneers. In her professional life, she has been the PA to senior executives in the fields of tertiary education, petroleum resources and management associations.

Overseas Mrs Mitchell has served as an elected official on school boards, as an Administrative Officer in the Refugee Review Board and coordinated women’s resource and support centres for military dependents. Before her retirement in 2013, she was the Minutes Secretary and was actively involved in the programs and advocacy issues of The Country Women’s Association of WA for 24 years. She has been volunteering for the National Trust since 1990.

National Trust member since 1990.

Prof John Stephens BArch (Hons1) PhD

Appointed Councillor – Australian Institute of Architects (WA Chapter) Term expires: 2017

A retired academic from the School of Built Environment at Curtin University, Professor John Stephens has taught in architectural history, heritage and conservation.

He has a strong background in conservation plans, heritage reports and research into architecture, landscape and culture.

Currently he supervises postgraduate students studying heritage topics and is working with ‘Bringing Them Home WA’ and Aboriginal people to regenerate former Native Mission sites as healing places for Stolen Generation people.

Professor Stephens also works with the communities of Indian villages in Uttar Pradesh to improve sustainability and living conditions.

He is a member of the Australia Asia Pacific Institute (AAPI), a member of ICOMOS and also sits on several National Trust committees.

He is appointed to the Heritage Council of Western Australia as the National Trust nominee.

National Trust Member since 1990.

National Trust Member since 2016.

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Key Legislation

Enabling Legislation: Mr Julian Donaldson

Mr Enzo Sirna AM

Mr Pasquo Cirillo

Ms Sarah Murphy

BA DipEd GAICD

BA DipEd MACE

BBus FIPA DipAcc

BA, Grad Dip Mus Stud, MLitt

Chief Executive Officer

Deputy Chief Executive Officer

Director, Finance and Audit

Director, Conservation and Stewardship

Mr Julian Donaldson joined the Trust in January 2016. Mr Donaldson was previously General Manager of the Perth International Arts Festival (PIAF). Under his leadership PIAF made substantial gains in audience numbers, box office and sponsor income while at the same time growing its international reputation as one of the world’s leading festivals.

Mr Donaldson brings broad experience in governance and management in both the cultural and commercial sectors.

Mr Enzo Sirna AM joined the Trust in 2001 with over 30 years’ experience in education and in governing community and not-forprofit organisations.

Mr Sirna was previously a Senior Policy Advisor for the Minister for Citizenship and Multicultural Interests and a former Head of Languages and Director of Studies at Penrhos College.

He was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia in 2004 for service to the community through education, multicultural affairs, welfare and the arts.

Mr Sirna is also Chairman of the McCusker Alzheimer’s Research Foundation.

Mr Pasquo Cirillo has been with the Trust since 2004.

Mr Cirillo has over 40 years’ experience in public sector finance and accounting and is a Fellow of the Institute of Public Accountants.

His experience includes financial and management accounting, cash flow management, financial analysis, financial management systems, budgeting, forecasting and reporting. He also has experience in property lease management and is responsible for lease management of the Trust’s property portfolio.

Ms Sarah Murphy joined the National Trust in 1999 having previously held training and advisory roles with Museums Association of Australia and the Western Australian Museum in addition to curatorial positions in a diverse range of museums.

With 30 years’ experience in cultural heritage she works in areas across the Trust’s heritage property portfolio and the extensive collections of moveable cultural heritage.

In 2014 she was the first in the State to be awarded a scholarship to attend the prestigious Attingham Summer School for the Study of the English Country House.

National Trust of Australia (WA) Act 1964 National Trust of Australia (WA) By-Laws.14 September, 1972 National Trust of Australia (WA) Rules. Amendment No 8. 7 November 2012

Other Key Legislation impacting on the National Trust: Auditor General Act 2006 Copyright Act 1968 (Commonwealth) Corruption Crime and Misconduct Act 2003 Electoral Act 1907 Equal Opportunity Act 1984 Financial Management Act 2006 Freedom of Information Act 1992 Heritage of Western Australia Act 1990 Industrial Relations Act 1979 Interpretation Act 1984 Land Administration Act 1997 Occupational Safety and Health Act 1984 Occupiers Liability Act 1985 Planning and Development Act 2004 Public Interest Disclosure Act 2003 Public Sector Management Act 1994 Salaries and Allowances Act 1975 State Records Act 2000 State Superannuation Act 2000 State Supply Commission Act 1991 Transfer of Land Act 1893 Workers Compensation and Injury Management Act 1981 Working with Children (Criminal Record Checking) Act 2004

Subsidiaries: The National Trust has no subsidiaries.

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A Legacy of Community Benefit

A Legacy of Community Benefit

The National Trust acknowledges the outstanding commitment of each Executive and Council member who generously volunteers time and expertise to benefit the Trust.

A Legacy of Community Benefit Acknowledging outstanding commitment

Hon John Cowdell AM JP BA (Hons) Dip Ed Hon D Litt

The National Trust acknowledges the outstanding commitment of each Executive and Council member who generously volunteers time and expertise to benefit the Trust.

In 2017, the Trust says a special thank you to the Hon John Cowdell AM for his distinguished service as a committed member of Council.

In his 10 years in Trust office Hon John Cowdell AM has served as Vice-President in 2007-08, President in 2008-2010, Chairman in 2011-14 and again as a Vice-President in 2015 and 2016.

Ms Irene Stainton

In Memoriam: The National Trust would like to pay tribute to the following members who through their commitment and roles, over many years, contributed significantly to the mission and vision of the National Trust: • Alice Adamson • Colleen Armitage • Jan Duncan • Ron Facius • Jennifer Marshall • Dr Avril O’Brien • Dr Philip Playford

At the same time he served as the Trust’s delegate to the Australian Council of National Trusts for some six years, holding office as a Director and Deputy Chairman of the ACNT. In 2016, Hon John Cowdell AM was awarded an Honorary Life Membership of the Trust.

The National Trust would like to also recognise the contributions made by the Hon Cheryl Edwardes AM and Ms Irene Stainton, who have both resigned in June 2017 as members of Council.

Hon Cheryl Edwardes AM GAICD LLM, BA, LLB, Bachelor of Jurisprudence

Hon Cheryl Edwardes AM was appointed as the Premier’s representative on Council.

Ms Irene Stainton will continue her involvement as Chair of the National Trust’s Aboriginal Advisory Committee.

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The Hardey family brought its Wesleyan faith to the Swan River Colony, Peninsula Farm. Photo: Sabine Albers.

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SIGNIFICANT ISSUES IMPACTING THE AGENCY

Significant Issues Impacting the Agency

While there have been a number of significant issues that impacted on the National Trust in 2016–2017 the two key issues which continue to have impact on the National Trust are:

Chris Murray, one of the team caring for property maintenance. Photo: Sabine Albers.

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The need to increase the commitment of stakeholders for heritage projects and programs; and

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The increasing requirement for both capital and recurrent investment of resources for heritage projects, programs and maintenance of places.

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PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK

Performance Management Framework

Introduction The National Trust’s Strategic Plan 2016-2020, aims to activate public interest in heritage which in turn will enhance the Trust’s capacity to sustain the heritage values of the places and collections it cares for. The Strategic Plan also allows for increased community engagement with heritage by bringing National Trust assets to life. To assist with these aims, the following five key strategic goals and focus areas underpin the Strategic Plan.

Goal 1: The National Trust of Western Australia will be valued by more people

Goal 3: Stimulate appetite to support the Trust

Focus Areas

• Diversify and increase resources • Drive advocacy to promote the enduring value of Western Australia’s heritage and the Trust’s purpose • Make and nurture partnerships that create opportunities • Leverage the opportunity offered by enhanced engagement with members and volunteers

• Drive and promote the community’s valuing of heritage and enhance heritage literacy • Activate the Trust’s assets through storytelling, engagement, participation and interpretation (assets being places, collections, cultural stories, the tangible and the intangible, and events of importance/interest/significance) • Inform and inspire enquiring minds to understand and explore the role of heritage through education and public programs • Inspire enquiry and attract, connect and satisfy visitors looking for uniquely Western Australian heritage experiences • Broaden and deepen community engagement (including increasing and making more relevant Trust membership and increasing and diversifying the volunteer cohort) • Develop a heritage audience

Goal 2: Competitively position the Trust in the heritage space Focus Areas • Clarify and amplify the Trust’s distinctive role and the full range of benefits it delivers across natural, Aboriginal and historic heritage • Confirm the Trust is a collaborative and cooperative player in the heritage space • Promote and leverage the Trust’s specialist professional heritage expertise and services • Build internal capacity by sharing and learning from what others do

Artefacts in the kitchen, Woodbridge. Photo: Sabine Albers.

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Focus Areas

Goal 4: A sustainable Trust Focus Areas • Consolidate and conserve the Trust’s collection of assets and focus action on those of most value and potential while maximising their productive capacity • Leverage the Trust’s professional heritage expertise and drive community access and commercial advantage from selected heritage assets and with new opportunities as they arise • Maintain and develop partnerships with governments, the commercial sector and the community • Expand, engage and value the membership and volunteer base • Leverage appeals and capacity for tax deductable donations

Goal 5: Manage the Trust with efficiency, effectiveness and a customer focus Focus Areas • Drive unity of purpose and a holistic approach to Trust activities • Drive innovation and entrepreneurship with integrity and courage • Manage the Trust’s resources and assets in a responsible and accountable manner

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AGENCY PERFORMANCE Conservation, Interpretation and Collections Heritage Services

Conservation, Interpretation and Collections Community Engagement Education and Learning Natural Heritage

Aboriginal Foundations

Artillery Drill Hall As part of the adaptive reuse project works, National Trust architects have completed conservation work to the floor.

Floorboards were carefully lifted and tagged to allow for sub-floor structural remediation to take place. The building was underpinned and damaged timber was replaced. While the flooring was up, archaeologists carried out extensive investigations and discovered an array of significant artefacts in the ground below the Drill Hall main floor. The artefacts excavated from these underfloor deposits were remarkably well preserved and provide a unique insight into the history of the site, from its use as a convict garden in 1857, through to the construction of the Drill Hall in 1895 and its more recent use as a music venue. They have carefully been recorded and will be incorporated into future interpretation as a part of the adaptive reuse works.

The artefacts excavated from these underfloor deposits were remarkably well preserved and provide a unique insight into the history of the site Underfloor archaeology, Artillery Drill Hall. Photo: NTWA.

Avondale The Trust was successful in its application for funding through the Royalties for Regions Wheatbelt Regional Grants Scheme and is working towards upgrading the houses at Avondale. The project is a key step towards making the place economically sustainable while providing a distinctive education and tourism offering in the Wheatbelt.

The grant will help provide an inviting and sustainable accommodation option for tourists visiting the region and increase its role as a destination for Perth visitors and as a significant regional and agri-tourist attraction.

Work on management of the bush reserve continues and several volunteer events have focussed on reducing the fuel load and fire risk.

Royalties for Regions cheque presentation at Avondale, (L-R) Leigh Ballard, Hon Mia Davies MLA, Monica Van Der Snoek and Kelly Rippingale. Photo: NTWA.

Childhood memories, Woodbridge. Photo: Sabine Albers.

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“Opera in the Regions” as part of West Australian Opera’s 50th anniversary celebrations, Central Greenough. Photo: James Wagner courtesy West Australian Opera.

Stonemasonry training with participants from Greenough Regional Prison, Central Greenough. Photo: NTWA.

Central Greenough

Greenough Flats

Greenough

As part of its 50th anniversary celebrations, West Australian Opera brought its “Opera in the Regions” performance to the courtyard of the Police Station and Lock-up at Central Greenough. An audience of 500 brought picnics and blankets and gathered friends to enjoy a unique evening of opera under the stars at this unique heritage place.

The historic Greenough Flats district was originally inhabited by the Yamaji and Noongar Aboriginal tribal groups. Colonial expansion into the district saw intensive settlement and freehold sales on the Flats between 1857 and 1867. An immigrant ticket of leave workforce enabled the district to expand quickly following the arrival of convicts in the Swan River Colony in 1850. By 1879 there were 162 houses in Greenough along with a Police Station, Courthouse, schools and churches. Roads and bridges were also built by convicts and Central Greenough became the focal point for social interactions.

Gray’s Store and Temperance Lodge in Greenough are the subject of PhD research being undertaken by University of Western Australia Archaeologist Melissa Hetherington.

Melissa carried out the second stage of her field work at Gray’s Store in July 2016, focusing on the outbuilding attached to the limestone wall surrounding the yard, revealing its use as a small forge. Interesting artefacts recovered include a Geraldton manufactured ginger-beer bottle, horse tack including brass rings, buckles and a stirrup, leather straps and horse-drawn buggy attachments, hooks and chains, horse shoes and a leather shoe. The excavations were featured in a news story by ABC Midwest.

Melissa presented an update of her research at a Trust Council meeting on 5 September 2016.

The performance featured four West Australian Opera artists including soprano Sara Macliver, one of Australia’s most sought-after and versatile artists, and much-loved mezzo soprano, Fiona Campbell. Also featured in the program was tenor Paul O’Neill and baritone Sam Roberts-Smith. They were accompanied on piano by West Australian Opera’s Head of Music, Thomas Johnson.

Valuable work has continued with the Department of Corrective Services and Greenough Regional Prison at Central Greenough thanks to a Royalties for Regions grant through the Mid-West Development Commission. Over twelve months, work has been completed to ten Central Greenough buildings with participants learning traditional trade skills in stone work, timber joinery and landscaping.

A heritage-trades open day was held during the Australian Heritage Festival with around 25 people attending, viewing work in action, and participating in hands on activities.

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By 1875 Greenough Flats was the leading primary food production area for the Colony. However, by 1890 two natural disasters (including red rust) ruined the wheat crop and floods inundated the Front Flats which led to the decline of the district. Into the 20th century, many places were abandoned and fell into disrepair. Central Greenough and a number of other significant places were acquired by the National Trust in the late 1970s and have remained under Trust management since that time.

Clinch’s Mill, Greenough Historic Flats. Photo: NTWA.

Trust Archaeologist Leanne Brass and Melissa Hetherington were members of a panel discussion at the University of Western Australia on 18th October 2016. ‘Perfect Match: The secrets of long-lasting partnerships between researchers and industry” was presented by the UWA Innovation Quarter.

A number of places on the historic Greenough Flats have been advertised through an open expression of interest process to seek private partnerships to assist with finding new uses. Available are Gray’s Store, the Wesleyan Church, a Stone Barn and Cottage, Clinches’ Mill, Cliff Grange, St James’ Church, and the former Greenough Hotel.

Excavation of Gray’s Store outbuilding, Greenough Historic Flats.

Photo: Melissa Hetherington, UWA Archaeology

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East Perth Cemeteries The innovative artist in residence project Sound from the Ground was applauded at the prestigious Museums and Galleries National Awards, winning the Interpretation, Learning & Engagement category for 2017. It was also recognised with a commendation in the Western Australian Heritage Awards. The project outcomes have been shared with the profession at one national and two State conferences and will also be featured at the International National Trust Organisation conference later in 2017.

Award winning “Sound from the Ground”, East Perth Cemeteries. Photo: Eva Fernandez.

In December contractors were undertaking works on the Perth Airport estate as part of the Forrestfield – AirportLink rail project. Whilst undertaking earth levelling the operator of a front end loader noted a broken headstone. An archaeologist investigated and quickly linked it to East Perth Cemeteries.

The headstone is that of Madeline Clifton James who died 4 April 1891 at the age of seven months. Associated with it were pieces of broken dinnerware and bottles dating from the 1950s. This matches with the period in which the Cemeteries were under the management of the State Gardens Board which, during a tidy up, removed any broken headstones and railings and added them to landfill. Further research will be undertaken to ascertain if Madeline is buried in the same grave as her father or elsewhere. If there is a way in which the headstone can be conserved and mounted it will be reinstated to the most accurate and appropriate location.

No 3 Pump Station, 1913, Cunderin. Photo: State Library of Western Australia Ernest Lund Mitchell collection (BA533/264).

Goldfields Water Supply Scheme No 3 Pump Station (Cunderdin) and No 4 Pump Station (Merredin) have been the subject of updated conservation plans made possible through a Federal Protecting National Historic Sites grant. An archaeological survey of the broader No 4 Pump Station site and some urgent conservation works to No 3 Pump Station were also carried out. The plans will be endorsed by the local communities and Water Corporation and will form guidelines for ongoing management of these nationally significant industrial heritage sites.

Roof detail No 8 Pump Station, Dedari. Photo: Buildmark

Gallop House

The funding allowed conservation of the pump station and former engineer’s residence to address deterioration since the last major works of a decade ago. Conservation works included: structural repairs to the 27m high chimney stack, its masonry base and adjoining masonry flue, repairs to roof guttering and flashing elements to the pump station, former engineer’s house and meter house, general repairs to the former engineer’s house (now the Warden's residence) and painting to all buildings and structures.

The conservation, adaptive reuse and interpretation works project undertaken by National Trust and made possible through the vision and generosity of the Feilman Foundation was recognised in a commendation in the 2017 Western Australian Heritage Awards.

The National Trust provides exclusive use of Gallop House for the Prelude Composer in Residence Program. Prelude is a network of national residencies for Australian composers, providing the time and space to create new work.

No 8 Pump Station is currently closed to the public and will reopen following asbestos remediation by the Water Corporation on adjoining land.

Gallop’s gardens are in the care of National Trust volunteers. An information day was held in March and seven volunteers signed on to plant out and maintain the limestone garden beds. Meeting for one morning a month, the volunteers will plant vegetables and fruit chosen from an extensive list of the original species brought out from England in the 1880s. Noongar Elder Neville Collard has provided advice on native bush tucker varieties for the site and how they have been used by local Aboriginal people.

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No 8 Pump Station, located at Dedari 50km west of Coolgardie is a key element in the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme. The National Trust was successful in its applications for two Department of the Environment, Protecting National Historic Sites grants. An archaeological survey and consultation with the Water Corporation formed part of the investigation program.

Other works supported by the federal government grants include the refurbishment of interpretation signage at all Golden Pipeline Heritage Trail (GPHT) sites and an extensive update of GPHT directional signage. Important changes to mitigate risk and encourage more incidental uses has seen the Great Eastern Highway become the main spine of the trail with spurs to the interpreted sites.

Work has also progressed on the development of an updated Golden Pipeline website.

Looking west, No 8 Pump Station, Dedari.

Photo: Global Unmanned Systems GUS, Geotag (01576).

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Heritage Skills workshop participants, Ellensbrook. Photo: NTWA.

Collecting local sand and limestone for the Heritage Skills training workshop. (L-R) Toni Webb, Zac Webb, Wayne Webb, Skye Thompson, Paul Lange and Owen Jones, Ellensbrook. Photo: NTWA.

Ellensbrook Ellensbrook is situated on land known by the Wardandi people as Mokidup, located within the Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park in the Margaret River region.

Ellensbrook is arguably one of the most significant places within the property portfolio of the National Trust, largely as a consequence of its highly layered and complex histories.

It is located in an area of high visitation by locals and tourists (both domestic and international).

Lotterywest generously awarded the National Trust a grant of $676,291 for the project in June 2016. The key components of this project include community engagement, conservation, interpretation, education and landscape works. The approach being taken to this project is an integrated one encompassing all aspects of the place that it is hoped will become a benchmark for future projects at other Trust heritage places.

Thorough consultation has helped the local community to engage more closely with Ellensbrook and to realise its potential. Consultation with the Traditional Owners in relation to planning, works and future management of the site has been a vital component of the project to date.

In the first twelve months of the project great progress has been made. Among the accomplishments to date are:

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• community consultation and survey • historical research from primary sources to inform interpretation and address any gaps in understanding of the history and development of the place, primarily focussed on social and Aboriginal significance • archaeological investigation to provide an holistic approach to the Aboriginal and European history of the place within its broader cultural setting • interpretation strategy development • Aboriginal heritage survey • documentation and associated conservation works including stone and timber conservation, painting, wall stabilisation and drainage enhancement, and under floor archaeology • conservation training workshops and associated open day • landscape design of proposed paths, fencing, reinstatement of the water wheel and conservation of the weir and associated structures • review of the interpretation plan to enhance community access to and understanding of the significance of the place • appointment of interpretation design team • development of formal school education programs A new approach to conservation of the building has been developed through the involvement of a range of interested community participants

in the work. They have been trained in traditional skills and it is hoped they have been inspired to retain an ongoing interest in Ellensbrook as volunteers and caretakers.

An investigations workshop was held in November with fourteen participants learning from a specialist materials consultant and structural engineer as well as National Trust conservation architects. This was followed by two five-day practical workshops in May with participants contributing around 1,300 hours of volunteer work and training. This unique opportunity attracted local residents and others from Perth and interstate. In addition to the workshops, the site was opened to the community to view and hear about the work.

The workshop participants learned a range of skills including the construction of temporary lime kilns, collecting local sands, mixing historic lime mortars from local materials, removing cement mortars and repointing walls, salt removal from the walls and timber, colour scrapes, making and applying coloured limewashes and a range of other traditional conservation techniques.

This approach embeds traditional trade skills in the local community rather than relying entirely on the hire of established tradespeople to undertake the work. Lotterywest support enabled the course to be made available at no

Limewash training, Heritage Skills training workshop, Ellensbrook. Photo: NTWA.

The approach being taken to the Ellensbrook project is an integrated one encompassing all aspects of the place that it is hoped will become a benchmark for future projects at other Trust heritage places. cost to participants. It is hoped to build on this in the next series of works with further practical skills training exercises involving local Aboriginal people.

Archaeological and Aboriginal heritage monitoring has been part of the recently completed conservation work.

A number of exciting deposits have been unearthed including extensive evidence of pre-European settlement occupation of the site. A continuation of archaeological monitoring and investigation during any ground disturbing work is essential and has the potential to greatly enhance understanding of human occupation of the site.

The project has passed midway.

It is expected that landscape works and the detailed development and installation of interpretation of the stories associated with Ellensbrook will be completed by the end of the calendar year. Curriculum based education programs will be promoted to schools and informal learning offerings, including holiday activities, are to be developed over coming months. Consultation and discussion with the community and organisations in the region will continue and identify

opportunities for public programs and events. Volunteers will be recruited and trained to support the presentation and operations of the place. It is anticipated the National Trust’s integrated vision for Ellensbrook will be available to the community by April 2018.

the properties in Jarrahdale and the potential use of the Mill Manager’s Residence for a shared community use.

Conservation works are scheduled to commence in early 2017.

Jarrahdale

The Luisini Winery will be leased for commercial adaptive reuse. The Trust will be working with the lessee to ensure proposed works are compatible with the heritage values of the place.

The Mill Manager’s House was awarded Royalties for Regions funding, with a $215,000 grant made available through the Peel Development Commission.

This substantial single storey timber house has historic significance as the residence for mill managers from 1881 to 1985 and a direct association with more than a century of the history of the State’s timber industry. It was constructed when Jarrahdale was the largest industrial operation in the State and is now rare as one of a few surviving purpose built Mill Manager's residences that remains in its original context and setting.

The building has been vacant for many years and forms the centrepiece of the Jarrahdale Heritage Park. It is hoped that conservation of the building will enable an appropriate new use to be found.

The Trust is working closely with the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale regarding

Luisini Winery

Old Perth Boys’ School Now successfully operated by Curtin University, Old Perth Boys’ School was shortlisted in the heritage category of the WA Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects’ awards.

The conservation and adaptive reuse project has officially been awarded a 6 Star Green Star interiors rating from the Green Building Council of Australia, recognising world leadership in sustainability. The project was the subject of a national webinar run by the Green Building Council of Australia and will be showcased to sustainability and heritage professionals through a number of site tours over the coming months.

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Vineyard views from Woodbridge. Photo: Sabine Albers.

Old Farm, Strawberry Hill Rehabilitation of the creek and connecting waterways at Old Farm, Strawberry Hill remain underway. This long term project has involved a partnership between the National Trust, Green Skills and the Aboriginal Green Army with the Great Southern Institute of Technology to remove exotic species and replace them with endemic plants.

Leanne Brass working on the inventory of collections at Old Farm, Strawberry Hill. Photo: NTWA.

In addition to ongoing works in the landscape, the 2012 master plan has been reviewed as part of a Great Southern Development Commission Royalties for Regions grant to undertake due diligence investigations. The work has included re-design of the site entry, a review of electrical and hydraulic services, and a town planning submission to amalgamate lots and change the use of the whole of the site.

Considerable community consultation has formed part of the project and led to proposed amendments to the master plan that will be submitted to the City of Albany for approval.

Whitby Falls The National Trust continues to liaise with Murdoch University regarding its use of and vision for Whitby Falls.

Murdoch’s master plan has been completed and a number of site activation measures taken including construction of a cattle handling teaching facility.

Royal Perth Hospital Heritage Precinct

Collections carefully wrapped for storage at Whitby Falls. Photo: NTWA.

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The Royal Perth Hospital Heritage Precinct (RPHHP) Integrated Vision Study, prepared by heritage planner Frank Bucher while on secondment from the Netherlands Cultural Heritage Agency in 2015 and supported by National Trust staff Caroline Stokes and Lisa Sturis, remains an active document. The National Trust has had continued communications with the City of Perth and newly formed Historic Heart Inc., an initiative of Adrian Fini which aims to revitalise the 'historic heart' of the Perth CBD which incorporates the RPHHP. This presents a strategic opportunity for the National Trust to work collaboratively with like-minded organisations to develop and deliver projects to support the wider central Perth area.

Woodbridge, view from the east. Photo: Sabine Albers.

Woodbridge Investigations into rainwater leaking into upper rooms of Woodbridge revealed extensive cracking to the brickwork of the two western gables that are not easily accessible. Urgent work was carried out to install reinforcing into the brickwork and conserve the face brickwork in September.

Conservation works included stainless steel Helifix reinforcing bars inserted and sealed into the mortar joints to provide strengthening of the brick gables. All of the brick gable faces were repointed (replacing the top 30mm of failing mortar) with lime mortar. Failing roof rainwater flashing adjoining the gables was also replaced and a lead roof cover installed over the non-accessible gable balconies to prevent water ingress. While the scaffolding was in place extra funding was provided to carry out conservation work to three tall brick chimneys also in need of care.

National Trust architects have commenced due diligence investigations to form parameters for the conservation of the house and upgrade of the popular café.

The Trust acknowledges the continued generosity of the Harper Family whose donations procure for conservation and interpretation works.

Samson House A small band of volunteers has continued to assist with work in the gardens of Samson House and welcome new members.

Bedroom of Charles and Fanny Harper, Woodbridge.

Photo: Sabine Albers.

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Conservation, Interpretation and Collections

Heritage Services

The Heritage Services Department supports the National Trust’s activities for advocacy, community support, research, archives, social media, heritage appeals and Aboriginal Foundations.

Advocacy As part of the Trust’s advocacy activities, Heritage Services reviewed and provided a number of submissions during the year on Local Planning Schemes and strategies, development applications, management plans and places considered for inclusion on the State Register of Heritage Places which is under the responsibility of the Heritage Council of Western Australia.

During 2016/17 there were two significant issues for which the National Trust advocated. The West End Precinct, Fremantle was assessed for inclusion on the State Register of Heritage Places. The National Trust identified several issues including boundary determination, omission of significant events and themes from the assessment and ongoing management policy for the area after Registration. Whilst not all of these concerns were addressed, the West End was successfully added to the State Register and has the support of the City of Fremantle to pursue appropriate management of the precinct.

Artist Carly Lane with her work “Debris”. Photo: Attila Csaszar.

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The collections documentation and digitisation project continues at a steady pace. The focus has been on the artefact collections at Peninsula Farm, Old Farm, Strawberry Hill and those in storage which include material from Curtin Family Home and Bridgedale. The aim of the project is to create an inventory of these collections, ensure the accuracy of the database records and to take reference quality photographs of each individual artefact. Those artefacts of direct provenance to National Trust properties will be highlighted to visitors on site and made accessible more broadly to the community on the website.

Artefacts no longer in the collection that were deaccessioned in 2007 were the subject of further examination by Carly Lynch a local, emerging artist who has recently completed her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) at Curtin University.

During her Honours year, she considered the question: 'In what ways can an arts practice evoke the transition and absence of objects removed from local collections by engaging with archived traces?' Carly trawled through the National Trust’s vast photographic archive and after experimenting across a variety of media Carly created a major artwork in response, a series of drawings titled Debris.

As with most collecting institutions, the National Trust has numerous artefacts that are required to be held in storage at various times. Archaeological collections and furniture from Curtin Family Home have been temporarily stored at Murdoch University but had to be relocated when the facility was no longer available. Over the course of two days the collections were carefully loaded onto trucks and taken to a newly created space at Whitby Falls. At Old Farm, Strawberry Hill collections storage has been dramatically improved with the installation of shelving and a reorganisation of the artefacts as part of the inventory process.

Debris is a set of 83 drawings created using a single sheet of graphite transfer paper to trace a selection of the photos.

The artwork was exhibited at Curtin University’s School of Design and Arts’ Degree Exhibition. Carly’s work Debris was also chosen to be hung in the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art for ‘Hatched’ - the National Graduate Exhibition.

The Guildford Hotel reopened in 2016 after almost being destroyed by fire in 2008. A point of contention throughout the reconstruction has been potential redevelopment of the car parking area to the south on Johnson Street. Apartments were previously considered for the area but in early 2017 a McDonald’s food outlet was proposed. The National Trust made a submission to the City of Swan with emphasis on the design of the building and in particular the physical characteristics which were assessed as detrimental to the significance of Guildford.

The Trust also had ongoing communications with the Guildford Association.

In August 2017, a development assessment panel refused the application due to potential impacts on the historic character of Guilford as well as parking and location concerns.

Holy Trinity Church, Roebourne. Photo: NTWA.

Heritage Appeals Following a review of the heritage appeals program in the previous year, current heritage appeals were reviewed by Heritage Services staff and additional recommendations were made. The objective of this review is to ensure the heritage appeals program provides a community benefit and builds relationships and partnerships with other organisations; is supporting and conserving our heritage; effectively captures information and promotes the Trust and our objectives.

This program has immense opportunities to provide a tangible community benefit and will continue to be grown and developed.

An anonymous donation was received for the Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Roebourne heritage appeal. This substantial $100,000 gift had a direct benefit for the conservation of the church which is undergoing repairs and maintenance. This donation was gratefully received and the National Trust extends its thanks to the generous donor.

The National Trust’s appeals program is also supporting the Museum of Freedom and Tolerance. This organisation which is still in its initial establishment phase aims to foster and promote tolerance and support for WA’s multicultural community and culture. A range of projects including education programs, workshops and symposia and exhibitions have taken place or are in development.

Small Group Tour taking in the natural heritage beauty of the Lake Clifton Thrombolites at dusk. Photo: NTWA.

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Heritage Services

Heritage Services

Heritage Events

Community Partnerships

Interstate Heritage Projects

In December 2016, Heritage Services hosted both new members of the Trust, and Trust volunteers, at two functions.

Our volunteer appreciation event for the 45 able to attend was organised to coincide with the United Nations’ (UN) official International Volunteer Day, an initiative the UN publicises worldwide; any group or organisation who works with volunteers to meet their goals is encouraged to take the day to acknowledge and appreciate the contribution their volunteers make, year round. New members (those who joined the Trust in 2016) were invited to a seasonal sundowner with the Trust’s President and Chairman; over 30 attended and also toured the Old Observatory.

Heritage Services has been developing positive relationships and partnerships through the provision of services including strategic planning, heritage assessments and conservation management for community benefit.

An integrated conservation strategy for Christmas Island was completed early in 2017 to communicate the unique and internationally recognised heritage values of the place to locals and visitors. The Trust has been involved with Christmas Island since 2013 and this project represented an opportunity to engage with the community and enable its involvement in planning for the conservation, management and interpretation of the Island’s heritage places, precincts, stories and objects. Led by Heritage Services, with assistance from conservation and interpretation staff, a heritage policy and strategy; interpretation strategy and documentation and conservation planning for numerous temples and shrines were prepared. This ambitious project created a long term framework to provide guidance and structure for the community’s heritage.

Two hundred and fifteen other guests from all walks of life toured the Old Observatory at the top of Mount Eliza with a Heritage Services guide. Opposite the entrance to Kings Park, it is now the headquarters of the National Trust, and is not usually open to the public. The Old Observatory still commands a prominent position in West Perth and provides a landmark of late nineteenth century architectural and scientific endeavour. Visitors toured the 1897 building and grounds and enjoyed complimentary refreshments on the verandah with sweeping views of Perth.

In May, Heritage Services led a day trip to Old Blythewood and Wonnerup, with stops at other WA heritage icons, the Busselton Jetty, Ludlow Tuart Forest, and the Lake Clifton Thrombolites. Seventeen people travelled by premium coach for an exclusive small group tour that highlighted two similar, yet wholly unique National Trust places.

Heritage Services partnered with Oh Hey WA to bring the public and Trust members along to Heritage Bar Tours, exploring the past and present of Perth’s CBD. The four tours offered insight into recently revitalised heritage precincts and new developments shaping the city, with an underlying focus on the emergent small bar scene.

Heritage Services staff have an established relationship with the City of Greater Geraldton which includes representation on the City’s Heritage Advisory Committee, judging the City’s Heritage Awards and ongoing support. In 2016, Heritage Services was engaged to review and update the City’s Heritage Strategy. The National Trust prepared the first Strategy in 2013 and this project allowed an opportunity to assess how this was implemented, gauge achievements and work with the City’s Heritage and Library staff in developing priorities for the community’s heritage and associated activities. The final Heritage Strategy 2017-2022 can be downloaded from the City of Greater Geraldton’s website (www.cgg.wa.gov.au).

Heritage Services also pursues opportunities to work across the National Trust with the Conservation team. For example, a Conservation Management Plan was completed for Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Roebourne and the Trust continues to liaise and assist in the conservation of this place.

This Plan was successfully completed with the assistance of UWA Masters of Heritage Studies student Fabienne Jose under the supervision of Heritage Services staff. Fabienne also worked on an updated heritage assessment for Stirling Square, Guildford and assessed a development application for a heritage place as part of a submission to the local government authority.

Heritage Services staff were also involved in providing professional services for the National Trusts in other States.

In South Australia, a peer review of its proposal for the adaptive reuse of Fort Largs in Adelaide was completed at the end of 2016. This review assisted the Trust’s submission to the South Australian Government for a multi-million proposal for the conservation of the Fort.

Small Group Tour in May 2017. Photo: NTWA.

In Tasmania, Heritage Services, with assistance from the Trust’s landscape architect, prepared conservation planning documentation for Clarendon, one of National Trust of Tasmania’s most iconic properties located south of Launceston. The project included community surveying, development of a Strategic Vision, a Conservation Management Plan and associated documentation. The approach for this project was based on sustainability and providing visitors a new experience of Clarendon.

Heritage Committees

City of Greater Geraldton Visitor Centre. Photo: City of Greater Geraldton.

The Classification Standing Committee, Art Deco Committee and Defence Heritage Committee continued to be supported

by Heritage Services as required. These technical committees are volunteer members who provide advice and expertise on various topics and issues related to our heritage.

Heritage Records The National Trust was the first organisation in Western Australia to record places of heritage significance in this State from the 1950-60s. Through this work, the List of Classified Places developed and is supported by an archive consisting of heritage assessments, histories and research, management plans, correspondence, articles, photographs, plans and maps. Heritage Services along with volunteers Graham Gerrans and Liam Turner is responsible for maintaining this significant collection which supports the Trust’s advocacy activities and is available as a community and educational resource.

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Small Group Tour entering Old Blythewood. Photo: NTWA.

At the launch of “Picture Palaces of the Golden West". (L-R) Lisa Sturis, Karl Haynes, Vyonne Geneve and Ron Facius. Photo: NTWA.

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Heritage Services

Heritage Services

Picture Palaces The National Trust publication, Picture Palaces of the Golden West by Vyonne Geneve and Ron Facius was officially launched by the Minister for Local Government; Heritage; Culture and The Arts on 6 July 2016. This book took several years to develop and produce and is a result of 10 years of research by Vyonne expanding from Art Deco Picture Palaces to include the history of cinema in Western Australia from travelling projectionists of the 1890s to multiplex cinemas in the 1990s. Heritage Services worked closely with Vyonne and Ron including arranging the official launch at MosArts in Claremont, a former Art Deco cinema on 6 July 2016 which was attended by over 150 people plus special guests.

In Memoriam Ron Facius passed away on 21 February 2017. Ron had a long and significant association with the National Trust and the Art Deco Society of WA, of which he was a founding member.

A wonderfully creative artist, Ron was a respected, loyal and tireless advocate for heritage with strength, passion and commitment. A public memorial to Ron was hosted by the National Trust at the Old Observatory in May for Ron’s friends and family.

Vyonne Geneve and Ron Facius signing copies of their book “Picture Palaces of the Golden West”. Photo: NTWA.

Social Media Heritage Services staff are responsible for the National Trust’s web content (WA) and social media including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. This is an important way for the Trust to communicate with our membership and general community. New and completed projects, activities and events and other happenings around our State are regularly posted, as is information about heritage, heritage at risk, and international heritage developments.

Goldfields Aboriginal Language Centre The Goldfields Aboriginal Language Centre based in Kalgoorlie has completed its first full year of operation.

The Centre set up under the auspices of the National Trust is supported by funding from the Federal Department of Communications and the Arts, Indigenous Language Program. The Centre employs two linguists and a number of administrative staff and works on the rescue, revival and maintenance of the 14 Aboriginal languages of the Goldfields region. In addition to its core work in language the Centre is also providing cultural competency training to regional government and corporate entities. Having now successfully been established, the Language Centre is looking at opportunities to expand its operations and services as it works towards long term sustainability.

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Culture on Canvas. Photo: Budadee Foundation.

Heritage Knowledge Repatriation Project In addition to the work with Foundations, the National Trust has been working on the Heritage Knowledge Repatriation Project, now known as Keeping Place. The Keeping Place Pilot Project is a landmark partnership between the Nyiyaparli and Yinhawangka People, major resource companies, the National Trust and the Indigenous Land Corporation.

With a shared vision, they have set about creating a safe and meaningful way to repatriate digital cultural and heritage information held by resource companies to the rightful custodians. The successful completion of the pilot will include the delivery of ‘The Keeping Place’ software - a powerful, innovative, user-friendly and

safe tool for collecting, protecting and appropriately sharing cultural knowledge. Designed, owned and managed by Indigenous Australians, the software will enable Nyiyaparli and Yinhawangka Traditional Owners to regain data sovereignty, apply cultural protocols, improve governance and unlock social and economic opportunities for current and future generations. The pilot project is scheduled for completion in February 2018.

This project is supported by Karlka Nyiyaparli Aboriginal Corporation (KNAC), Yinhawangka Aboriginal Corporation (YAC), BHP, Rio Tinto, Fortescue Metals Group and the Indigenous Land Corporation.

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Aboriginal Foundations

Community President’s Engagement Report

For over a decade the National Trust has been working with Aboriginal Communities through Aboriginal Foundations.

Aboriginal Foundations Foundations are committees established under the auspices of the National Trust to assist communities to develop cultural heritage projects while developing organisational infrastructure with the long term aim of becoming effective and efficient independent organisations.

The work of these committees has continued to grow throughout 2016–2017.

Rose pruning and garden maintenance volunteers at Samson House. Photo: NTWA.

Budadee Foundation

Community Engagement

The Budadee Foundation brings together members of the Palyku community with the principal aim of ensuring the Woodstock/Abydos region of the Pilbara is properly cared for. This long neglected part of Western Australia contains the largest inland collection of rock art which has been nominated for National heritage listing. The Foundation is supported by Atlas Iron Ore and the Palyku Native Title Working Group.

The National Trust brings together a program of events which support the significant heritage values associated with our places and programs.

Professor Paul Hardisty challenged us all to meet the big water related challenges of the next 20 years in his lively and thought provoking 2017 CY O’Connor Lecture which was supported by Water Corporation.

Seventy-five years after John Curtin became Prime Minister, Professor Deborah Gare explored how Curtin’s actions against conscription in the First World War shaped his approach to Australia’s involvement in the Second in the annual Curtin Family Home address.

Through a partnership between Terra Rosa Consulting and the Budadee Aboriginal Corporation, the Pilot Ranger Program was implemented in 2017. Thirteen students completed Certificate III training in Aboriginal Sites Works and Conservation and Land Management, a ranger training base has been established in Port Hedland, and the caring for country and cultural leadership program is underway.

More information can be found at www.budadee.org.au.

Gamburlarna Foundation The Gamburlarna Foundation was established by members of the Yindjibarndi people of the Roebourne areas to assist in the development of sustainable Cultural Heritage and Environmental projects. The particular focus of activity this year has been on good governance and improving project management for the delivery of programs for the Wirlu-Murra Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation. As a consequence the Foundation has been absorbed back into the Corporation which, through agreement with the Trust, directly develops and manages the delivery of the program's objectives. This project is supported by Fortescue Metals Group.

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Ranger Program – Woodstock/Abydos. Photo: Budadee Foundation.

On 24 February, National Trust CEO Julian Donaldson facilitated a panel as part of the PIAF Great Southern Writer’s Festival in Albany. Panellists including award winning Aboriginal author Kim Scott, Noongar elders and an historian who explored issues associated with research in relation to writing Aboriginal historical fiction and history. The following day Harley Coyne, a Noongar Elder, led a guided tour of Old Farm, Strawberry Hill.

The Trust worked with the Museum of the Great Southern, the Art Gallery of Western Australia and UWA (Albany) to offer a talk by Melissa Harpley, Coming to terms: colonial images of King George Sound on 29 March 2017. The talk explored the visual record of encounters between the local Menang Noongar people and European explorers and settlers.

These two events made important links to the WA Museum exhibition of Menang objects from the British Museum, Yurlmun, Mokare Mia Booja.

Curtin Family Home Lecture. (L-R) Julian Donaldson, Josh Wilson MP, Prof Deborah Gare and Max Kay AM CitWA. Photo: NTWA.

The popular annual rose pruning and garden maintenance workshops were held at Samson House in Fremantle on 10 July 2016 and at Old Blythewood in Pinjarra on 7 August 2016. The workshops provided participants with an overview of the history and significance of the places as well as a chance to learn and practice rose pruning techniques.

Other programs throughout the year included an Easter egg hunt at Peninsula Farm which delighted families on 15 April 2017; Woodbridge volunteers and Trust staff presented the moving military family-focused history at From Guildford to Gallipoli on 13 November 2016, and Old Blythewood warden and volunteers offered the fabulous Blythe jazz afternoon on 19 November 2016 where the visitors where entertained by Swingin’ Bits.

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Community Engagement

Giving Children a Voice, Open Day, Peninsula Farm. Photo: NTWA.

The Australian Heritage Festival was a finalist in the 2017 WA Heritage Awards in the Heritage Tourism Products category.

Open day and music making workshop at Gallop House. Photo: NTWA.

2017 Australian Heritage Festival Several significant changes were made to the annual national heritage festival in 2017 including a new name and branding (Australian Heritage Festival) and an updated website. New selection criteria were also implemented to help provide a stronger heritage focus for the program.

Fanny Balbuk Yooreel: Realising a Perth Resistance Fighter

The festival was launched nationally in Canberra on 18 April by the Governor General, Sir Peter Cosgrove, at Government House. In Western Australia Mr John Carey MLA, Parliamentary Secretary and representing Minister for Local Government; Heritage; Culture and The Arts, David Templeman MLA, opened the festival with the launch of Balbuk’s Country: an exhibition at the City of Perth Library. Over 45,000 visitors across the State participated in the 131 events in the festival program including 32 events with a focus on Aboriginal heritage. The National Trust presented 27 events in metropolitan and regional areas. Highlights included an antique show, a family focused musical instrument making workshop, a family orientated Mother’s Day event with children’s activities, afternoon tours of the Old Observatory, a traditional masonry skills day and a bus tour of south west and Peel heritage sites. Free entry on weekends was offered to Trust properties in WA during the festival.

During April and May the National Trust launched a series of events to commemorate the extraordinary life of Fanny Balbuk Yooreel, a Noongar Whadjuk yorga (woman) on the 110th anniversary of her death. The Trust worked in partnership with the City of Perth, the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions and was supported by Lotterywest.

The theme, Having a Voice, was partly inspired by the recognition of 50 years from the 1967 Aboriginal referendum.

A suite of four events focused on the life of Fanny Balbuk Yooreel, a Whadjuk Noongar activist of the 19th century.

This created partnership opportunities for the Trust with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal organisations and individuals.

Two public talks, led by Marie Taylor, were held on 11 May 2017 at the City of Perth Library where a short documentary was also shown. The documentary, produced by the Trust for this event, featured a series of interviews with contemporary Whadjuk women who discussed the legacy and significance of Fanny Balbuk Yooreel’s life. The Trust thanks Doolan Leisha Eatts, May McGuire, Beverley Port-Louis, Marie Taylor, Irene Stainton, Theresa Walley and Glennys Yarran for their time, knowledge and contribution to this documentary.

The Australian Heritage Festival was a finalist in the 2017 WA Heritage Awards in the Heritage Tourism Products category.

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Launch of Balbuk's Country: an exhibition to open the Australian Heritage Festival. Back (left to right): Robyn Smith Walley, Pat Forster, Hon Michael Murray AM QC, John Carey MLA, Richard Walley OAM. Front: Marie Taylor. Photo: NTWA.

Left: Trevor Hancock appraising ceramics at “Ask the Expert Jewellery and Small Antiques Show”, Old Observatory Photo: NTWA.

WA Inspired Art Quilt group created a range of superb quilts to recognise Fanny Balbuk Yooreel’s life, with reference to historic maps, records and locations. The exhibition Balbuk’s Country launched the 2017 Australian Heritage Festival.

The quilts were exhibited at the City of Perth Library from 19 April–17 May 2017.

A walk through Perth’s Whadjuk landscape was held on 23 April 2017 under the guidance of Whadjuk Ballardong Elder, Marie Taylor.

A public symposium, ‘Fanny Balbuk Yooreel: Life, Legacy and Emotions,’ was organised by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions and held at the City of Perth on 17 May 2017. Leading academics and practitioners from across Australia were brought together to discuss the

Leading academics and practitioners from across Australia were brought together to discuss the emotional power of Fanny Balbuk Yooreel’s life and legacy emotional power of Fanny Balbuk Yooreel’s life and legacy, in the context of the emotions of colonial contact, the production of Australian indigenous stories, biographies and histories and recognition of Noongar heritage in Perth today.

The Trust produced two publications to commemorate these events that were made available to the public free of charge – a booklet, ‘Fanny Balbuk Yooreel: Realising a Perth Resistance Fighter’ and a downloadable self-guided map (visit https://www.nationaltrust.org.au/wp-content/ uploads/2017/05/Fanny-Balbuk-Yooreel-Walk-TrailBrochure.pdf).

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Community Engagement

Many of the Trust’s activities are either run by or supported by a very generous and committed group of volunteers.

Volunteers at the Old Observatory. Photo: NTWA.

(L-R) Julie Ryan of the Bundanon Trust, Dr Mace Francis, Composer in Residence and Julian Donaldson at Gallop House. Photo: NTWA.

Gallop House

Volunteers

Christmas Carols

ANZAC Day

The Trust is working to build a stronger volunteer cohort. Many of the Trust’s activities are either run or supported by a very generous and committed group of volunteers, from our Council to our technical committees through to our properties.

The recruitment of a Volunteer and Place Officer has improved communication and enabled a more consistent and professional approach to volunteer management to be developed and implemented.

The Christmas Carols, again held at sunset, were enjoyed by around 400 people in 2016. Carols are led by the lively Tuxedo Junction and a nativity play performed by children with assistance by Peninsula Farm volunteers is a highlight. Spiritual matters were well covered with a welcome to country

by Carol Foley and a Christmas blessing

by Rev Caroline Gepp.

Several community events have been held in the grounds of Peninsula Farm on the banks of the Swan River at Maylands.

Gallop House, conserved and redeveloped with the generous support of the Feilman Foundation, is now part of the national Prelude Program funded by the Commonwealth Government. Prelude is a collaboration between the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Composers Trust, The National Trust of Western Australia, the National Trusts of Australia, APRA and the Bundanon Trust. It brings together a network of national residencies for composers, providing them time and space to create new work.

Gallop House has hosted two Composers in Residence – Andrew Batt-Rawden (July–December 2016) and Dr Mace Francis (January 2017–January 2018). Andrew’s time was not funded under the Prelude program.

The annual ANZAC sunset ceremony was held on 25 April 2017 with great support from local businesses and the local community. Peninsula Farm volunteers host this moving ceremony creating posies and wreaths for remembrance.

Bugler: Barry Telfer, Cadet from 57th Army Cadet Unit (Morley). Photo: NTWA.

Dr Francis is a Perth based musician with a focus on original Australian big band jazz music. He is very active locally, nationally and internationally performing across Australia as well as in Europe, America and Japan including time as guest composer and conductor in several countries. He is the Director of the WA Youth Jazz Orchestra (on leave for the year of his residency) and has lectured and taught at WAAPA and UWA. A very successful members’ event was held at Gallop House in February where Dr Francis outlined his aspirations for the year ahead in terms of his composition work and opportunity to collaborate and work with other musicians. A day of music making was held as part of the Australian Heritage Festival with a musical instrument making program and performances by the Music Mill, a solar powered multifunctional contraption which entertained all who attended.

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ANZAC Day sunset ceremony, Peninsula Farm. Photo: NTWA.

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Education and Learning

Education and Learning

Chantelle Daniels shares some of Frederick Garlings first sketches of the Swan River with Year 5 students visiting East Perth Cemeteries. Photo: Jodie Jones.

Dappled light, Peninsula Farm. Photo: Sabine Albers.

Education and Learning School and public education programs at National Trust historic places provide students with realworld experiences, helping them to fully appreciate the history of Western Australia and develop respect for and empathy with the State’s earliest colonists. Students’ learning, interest and enjoyment of history is supported through opportunities to visit historic places.

Each education excursion has been carefully developed to include a series of engaging activities. For schools required to adhere to the curriculum, education programs are year specific so that the curriculum requirements for each year level are addressed. The activities are also property specific; the activities are imbedded in the history of each property. Excursions include an introduction and tour, where the history of the place and its occupants is outlined, so that students develop a sense of the significance of the place and its role in our history. Students rotate through a range of hands on activities that may include artefacts, weighing rations, making a wooden

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peg person, a windmill, fan or sewing.

Old fashioned games are often played with younger students and written activities might include cross writing or a persuasive sketch of the property.

by making a peg person the role of children in the 1830s is explored and the ideas of play, education and chores are compared. The European arrival in the Swan River Colony underpins the excursion for Year 5 students.

Education excursions to Trust places in Whilst the experiences of the Hardey the metropolitan area continue to be in family provide a firsthand experience very high demand. Education staff and of colonial hardships it is the broader property resources were reasons for migration and the hardships engaged to their full capacity in faced that are August and at the core of The education team is September this excursion. of 2016 passionate about the provision Many Year 5 and again classes combine of support for classroom from midteachers and ultimately aims their half day at March until Peninsula Farm July 2017. to instil in students a strong with a visit to East Peninsula Perth Cemeteries. sense of Western Australia’s Farm is the Through the unique history. most highly opportunities visited by provided for students, the education school groups. Students in Years 1 team aspires to engage students’ and 2 focus on the Hardey family and interest and generate excitement about its way of life and make comparisons history, fostering an understanding of to modern technologies and family what life was like in the olden days. structures. Hands on activities include opportunities to handle artefacts and investigate household techniques;

The education team is passionate about the provision of support for classroom teachers and ultimately aims to instil in students a strong sense of Western Australia’s unique history.

In addition to providing opportunities to visit unique historic heritage properties managed by the National Trust, the Education staff develops Western Australian Curriculum programs; works with individual teachers and students and encourages creativity through presentations and hands on experiences to connect young children with our heritage.

Support for classroom teachers, particularly in primary schools, is provided through the provision of high quality heritage education programs that are Australian and Western Australian Curriculum driven and which build confidence and enthusiasm for the Humanities and Social Sciences component of the Curriculum. The programs provide detailed lesson suggestions for pre and post visit activities to extend and consolidate student learning and maximise the benefit of an excursion.

Catering for a range of year levels, education programs have been written to comply with the requirements of the Australian Curriculum. At the beginning of 2017 the Western Australian Department of Education mandated the Western Australian curriculum over the previously taught Australian Curriculum. Education staff have undertaken to update every program to ensure it is aligned to the new requirements and reflects the current needs of schools. The programs are supported by comprehensive teacher and student resources that can be downloaded from our website.

In addition to the updates required for all programs, new content is being developed specifically for Ellensbrook.

Along with a suite of informal program initiatives these will be unveiled in the coming year in line with broader conservation and interpretation works being undertaken at the property.

Left: This diorama was the culmination of many weeks learning about the Swan River Colony and is the result of a school visit to East Perth Cemeteries.

Photo: Madeleine Murphy.

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Natural Heritage

Parkwater The 2016–2017 ‘Wandoo Rest’ revegetation and landscaping project has been a great success with a high rate of seedling survival, largely due to the volunteer work of Wandoo Place residents, Colin & Dot Burns, in watering them over summer.

The log ‘lounges’ sculpted and donated by Arbor Guy (our contractors), made using logs from storm damaged or unsafe trees from around Parkwater, were received with delight and are getting regular use.

It was a testing time in July–August 2016 when the highest rainfall in one week for 20 years (according to old locals) caused Wandoo Creek to burst its banks and flood the newly built footpath and more than half of the area to be planted.

A diversion drain was installed and it has proved its worth again this winter. Planting of seedlings was delayed due to the flooding but was eventually done over two busy bee days in late August and early September. The Trust was fortunate to get a grant towards some of the cost of this project from the Western Australian Government’s State NRM Program supported by Royalties for Regions, however it was the work of volunteer residents which really made this a successful community project.

House building has continued at a rapid pace, if not as frantic as in 2015. There are now few blocks which are not built on or at least cleared in preparation. This does mean some sections of National Trust bushland have become fragmented into small areas with no connecting bush corridors remaining, so it is hoped that the residents will take an ongoing active role in assisting with weed control and at times planting endemic seedlings where required.

Parkwater Lake. Photo: NTWA.

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There are a few areas where residents are getting together with neighbours and applying the knowledge gained from the ‘Weed ID and Eradication’ and ‘Revegetation and Landscaping with Native Plants’ workshops that we ran last year, and have commenced mini revegetation projects to create privacy screening or for weed suppression.

The trails network (which serves as emergency rear access/ firebreaks to the house lots), is well used by walkers, joggers and cyclists and the Trust gets regular feedback of how much pleasure users get from them. Unfortunately there continues to be a few people who drive down these trails which inevitably creates annoyance and justified complaints.

Whilst vehicle access is blocked with large logs in winter to some of the trails, there is no easy answer to this problem.

Natural Heritage Conservation Covenant Program The National Trust has been running the Natural Heritage Conservation Covenant Program since 1999 to provide formal and perpetual protection for lands identified as having significantly high conservation, heritage and cultural values. As at 30 June 2017, the National Trust has implemented 183 covenants over 338 land titles.

The cumulative total of covenanted bushland is 18,372 hectares occurring on 67,322 hectares of land within the greater south west land division.

The National Trust hosted another Wildflower Walk last October which was a wonderful event with a good turnout despite being a miserable wet and windy day. There was some excitement when a Caladenia (spider orchid) was found and thought to be the rare C. busselliana. However, it was later identified by the WA orchid guru Andrew Brown, as a Caladenia citrina x C. rhomboidiformis hybrid – still a beautiful and very unusual orchid. Parkwater has a stunning variety of wildflowers each spring but 2016 was exceptional.

Parkwater Wildflower Walk. Photo: NTWA.

Members walking in Karri forest on their covenanted property in Kronkup. Photo: NTWA.

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OTHER DISCLOSURES

Members on a granite outcrop on their covenanted property in Kronkup. Photo: NTWA.

Covenanting and Stewardship Officers Currently, two Covenanting and Stewardship Officers are employed with the Trust based in the South West and South Coast regions respectively.

Covenant criteria Properties are accepted into the Conservation Covenant Program if they meet defined criteria such as having high biodiversity value and/or the presence of Threatened and/ or Priority* flora and fauna. Covenanting Officers carry out on-ground site assessments prior to the final approval of land being accepted into the program. The land's ability to maintain these high conservation values over the long-term is taken into consideration.

Voluntary covenants (altruistic covenants)

on request. In 2016–2017, Covenanting Officers have undertaken 39 stewardship visits to covenanted properties.

Each covenanted property has a Bushland Management Plan which is developed by the Covenanting and Stewardship Officers in consultation with landowners. These plans will be revised every 8 years or as changes are required. The plans identify conservation, heritage and cultural values on the properties and set out actions to conserve and enhance them. Plans include an accumulative inventory of flora and fauna for each property, most of which have Threatened and/or Priority* flora and fauna species present. Numerous threatened flora and fauna were identified on covenanted properties this year. Threatened fauna including Mallee Fowl and Western Quoll (Chuditch) and Priority flora species, Stylidium lowrieanum and Stylidium leeuwinense were found on covenanted properties in 2016–2017.

Several enquiries for voluntary covenants were received in 2016–2017 although no voluntary covenants have been implemented since the Trust adopted a cost recovery policy to take on this type of covenant.

Conditional covenants (required as part of a subdivision process) The Trust continues to work with the Western Australian Planning Commission in assisting owners to implement covenants on their properties as part of the subdivision process.

Stewardship visits and Bushland Management Plans The main activity of the Covenant Program in 2016–2017 has been to undertake stewardship visits to covenanted properties and to develop and revise Bushland Management Plans as part of the Trust’s ongoing commitment to support landowners in their efforts to manage the conservation values on their properties for the long-term.

*Priority flora and fauna : Flora and fauna that may be rare or threatened but for which there are insufficient survey data to accurately determine their status, or are regarded as rare but are not currently threatened.

Stewardship visits are ideally undertaken every 3 years although the time between visits has stretched out in recent years due to having limited on-ground officers. Bushland management guidance can also be provided to covenanters

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Interpretive insights, Peninsula Farm. Photo: Sabine Albers.

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Other Disclosures

Other Disclosures

Employment and Industry Relations

Conflict of Interest

Number and Category of Staff

At the date of reporting, no Senior Officers, or organisations of which Senior Officers are members, have substantial interests in existing or proposed contracts with the National Trust.

As at 30 June 2017 the National Trust had the following number of employees: No. and Category

2016–17

2015-16

Full-time permanent

12

10

Full-time contract

12

14

At the date of reporting, no senior officers, or firms of which senior officers are members, or entities in which senior officers have substantial interests, had any interests in existing or proposed contracts with the National Trust of Australia (WA), other than normal contracts of employment of service.

Part-time permanent

0.6

2

Unauthorised use of Credit Cards

Part-time contract

5.2

3.6

0

1

Secondment

Staff Development The National Trust is committed to providing the best possible development opportunities for its staff, enabling them to maintain a high level of skills and meet advances in processes and technology.

National Trust employees are encouraged to develop their career pathways through professional development and training, self and formal staff evaluations, provision of flexible work options, health and wellness programs supported by training and mentoring.

Recruitment Selection and recruitment processes are maintained at a consistently high standard to ensure the appointment of people to positions with the appropriate level of skills and diversity to enhance the quality of service provision.

Workers Compensation There have been no compensation claims recorded during the financial year.

Governance Disclosures Australian Council of National Trusts The Australian Council of National Trusts is a company limited by guarantee, established by State and Territory Trusts to coordinate national activities including reviewing legislation and policy relating to heritage, managing heritage awareness programs and supporting the objectives of the Australian National Trust movement.

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Contracts with Senior Officers

Officers of the National Trust of Australia (WA) hold corporate credit cards where their functions warrant usage of this facility and must adhere to the National Trust of Australia (WA) credit card policy. There was however, one occasion where personal expenses were inadvertently taken from a corporate credit card. The instance was related to an item of personal expenditure that was accidentally attributed to the corporate credit card and not to the individual’s personal card. The correction was made and all monies were reimbursed. The matter did not require any disciplinary action as the Chief Finance Officer noted prompt advice and settlement of the personal use amount, and that the nature of the expenditure was immaterial and characteristic of an honest mistake.

Measure Number of personal use instances

2016–2017 1

Other Legal Requirements

Disability Access and Inclusion Plan Outcomes

Advertising

The National Trust is aware of the importance of a Disability Access and Inclusion Plan in accordance with the Disability Services Act 1993, s.29 and Schedule 3 of the Disability Services Regulations 2004.

In compliance with section 175ZE of the Electoral Act 1907, the National Trust is required to report on expenditure incurred during the financial year in relation to advertising agencies, market research organisations, polling organisations and media advertising organisations.

Total expenditure for 2016–2017 was $0.

Measure

2016– 2017

$5

Aggregate amount of personal expenditure settled by the due date

$5

Aggregate amount of personal expenditure settled after the due date

Nil

Aggregate amount of personal expenditure outstanding at the end of the reporting period

Nil

Number of referrals for disciplinary action instigated during the reporting period

Nil

Compliance with Public Sector Standards and Ethical Codes

Advertising Agencies

Nil

The National Trust is compliant with Public Sector Standards and Ethical Codes including its own code of conduct in line with the WA Code of Ethics and conduct guidelines as provided by the Office of Public Sector Standards.

Market Research organisations

Nil

Record Keeping Plans

Polling organisations

Nil

Direct mail organisations

Nil

Media advertising organisations

Nil

Expenditure

Total

The efficiency and effectiveness of the National Trust’s record keeping plan, as a requirement under s.19 of the State Records Act 2000 (SR Act), is evaluated every five years to assess the extent to which the plan meets the record keeping policy objectives.

Government Policy Requirements Substantive Equality The National Trust is aware of the intent and substance of the Policy Framework for Substantive Equality and has worked within the guidelines of the framework to ensure there is substantive equality in all services delivered by the National Trust.

Occupational Safety, Health & Injury Management Aggregate amount of personal expenditure for the reporting period

Mindful of the limitations of some heritage places, people with disabilities do generally have the opportunity to access National Trust places and participate in its activities.

The National Trust is committed to taking all reasonably practicable measures under Section 19 of the Occupational Measure

Safety and Health Act (OSH Act), to protect the safety and health of its employees, volunteers and other people within the workplace, including contractors and to ensure there are safe systems of work.

Upon induction employees are informed of the formal and informal processes and measures to ensure a safe working environment for them. The organisation has employees who are trained as Occupational Health and Safety Officers, who are accessible to employees, as required.

Actual Results

Results against target

2015-16 2016–17

Target

Comment on result

Number of fatalities

Zero (0)

Zero (0)

Zero (0)

N/A

Lost time injury/disease (LTI/D) incidence rate

Zero (0)

Zero (0)

Zero (0)

N/A

Lost time injury severity rate Zero

Zero (0)

Zero (0)

Zero (0)

N/A

(i) within 13 weeks

100%

100%

100%

N/A

(ii) within 26 weeks

100%

100%

Greater than or equal to 80%

N/A

Percentage of managers trained in occupational safety, health and injury management responsibilities

100%

100%

Greater than or equal to 80%

N/A

Percentage of injured workers returned to work:

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APPENDICES 1. Bequests and Donations 2. Sponsorship and Grants 3. Honorary and Life Members • Honorary and Life Members • Committees of Council Members • Active Volunteers

Bequests and Donations, Sponsorships and Grants 4. Attendance at Council and Executive Committee Meetings 5. Honour and Award Recipients 2016 • Honour and Award Recipients (volunteers) 2016 • Special Awards 2016

6. Classified Places and Objects 7. National Trust Managed Properties 2016-17 8. Heritage Appeals 2016–2017

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Bequests and Donations (over $50 2016–2017)

Sponsorships and Grants (2016–2017)

Diana Williamson

The National Trust values the generosity of its Sponsors which allow the projects and programs to continue and wishes to acknowledge the organisations listed below.

Department of Environment and Energy

Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities

Morris & Janice Johnston

The Australian Government supports the National Trust Heritage Festival through funding and promotion of events on the Australian Heritage Week website.

Christine Lewis

Atlas Iron

Midge Richardson

Attorney General’s Department

Wendy Gellard

BHP Billiton

Great Southern Development Commission

Barbara McDonwell

Bundanon Trust

Lotterywest

Sue Graham-Taylor

Community Arts Network of Western Australia

Midwest Development Commission

Robert & Vicky Reynolds Lewis & Katherine Marshall Michael Jardine Chris & Swee See Colton Gwen Watson

Pam Mikus Phillip Smith John & Nancy Harper Joy Brann H & L Simmons

Copland Foundation Curtin 100FM Curtin University Department of Communications and Arts

Department of Planning, WA Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts & Sports

Feilman Family Foundation Fortescue Metals Group

National Trusts of Australia Rio Tinto Ltd State NRM Office, WA Water Corporation WA Planning Commission

Bruce & Shan Callow Judy Dill-Macky Harold Coppock Joanne Cruickshank Vicky Dodds The National Trust sends a sincere expression of gratitude to its Supporters, Sponsors, Partners and Benefactors; if someone has been inadvertently omitted please accept our sincere apologies.

Peninsula Farm viewed from the north. Photo: Sabine Albers.

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Kitchen artifacts, Woodbridge. Photo: Sabine Albers.

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Honorary and Life Members

Committees of Council Members

Appendix 3

Committees of Council Members

Executive Committee

Classification Standing Committee

Budadee Foundation

Honorary and Life Members

National Trust of Australia (WA) Council

Helen Cogan (Secretary)

Dr Fiona Bush (Chair)

Stanley Ball Snr

Julian Donaldson (CEO)

Sandy Curtis

Robert Cheedy

Dr Hugo Bekle

Hon Cheryl Edwardes

Caroline Grant

Joe Coppin

Derryn Belford

Grant Godfrey

Eric Hancock

Blaze Kwaymulina

Helen Cogan (Secretary)

Life Members

Prof Jenny Gregory AM

Robert Mitchell

Reggie Malana

Dr Kenneth Collins AM CitWA

Max Hipkins

Geoffrey Moor

Stephen Stewart

Ronald Bodycoat AM

Hon Cheryl Edwardes AM

Max Kay AM CitWA (President)

Judi Murray

Dwayne Stream (Chair)

Eileen Brown

Dr Stephen Errington

Christine Lewis (Vice President)

Don Newman

Fred Stream

Dr Fiona Bush

Grant Godfrey

Dr Ken Michael AC (Deputy Chair)

Inger Russell

Kevin Stream

Hon John Cowdell AM

Graham Goerke

Colonel (Ret’d) Robert Mitchell CFD UE

Prof John Stephens

Walter Stream

Heather Dayman

Prof Jenny Gregory AM

Hon Michael Murray QC AM (Chair)

Lisa Sturis

Lindsay Yuline

Pamella Hall

Max Hipkins

John Palermo (Treasurer)

Dr Robyn Taylor

Joyce Hardy

Gamburlana Foundation

Roger Jennings

Dr Cleve Hassell

Finance & Audit Committee

Defence Heritage

Max Kay AM CitWA (President)

Rodney Adams (Chair)

Katherine McLarty

Christine Lewis (Vice President)

Pasquo Cirillo (CFO)

Helen Birch

Jayne Ranger

Frank Montgomery OAM

Prof Jane Lydon

Grant Godfrey (Chairman)

Graham Horne

Ken Sandy

Dr Phillip Playford AM

Dr Ken Michael AC (Deputy Chair)

Peter King

Graham McEwan – Co-opted Member

Ricky Sandy

Roslyn Stewart OAM

Jocelyn Mitchell

John Palermo (Treasurer)

Graham Mackenzie Smith

Diana Smith

Don Strang

Colonel (Ret’d) Robert Mitchell CFD UE (Vice President)

Julian Donaldson (CEO)

John Mercer – Co-opted Member

Jill Tucker

Membership & Volunteer Committee

Robert Mitchell – Chair / Secretary

K & P Foundation

Max Kay AM CitWA

Zoe Scott - Co-opted Member

Roger Jennings

John Stephens – Deputy Chair

Irene Stainton

Art Deco Committee

Aboriginal Advisory Committee

Louise Hansen

Prof John Stephens

Dr Theo Bredmeyer CBE (dec. 2016)

Mark bin Bakar

Andrew Johnson

Dr Robyn Taylor

Jean Clark (Minute Secretary)

Harley Coyne

Ian O’Donnell

Dr Philip Lawe Davies

Charmaine Green

Diana Robinson

Ron Facius (Deputy Chair) (dec. 2017)

Kado Muir

Jennifer Robinson

Vyonne Geneve OAM (Chair)

Irene Stainton (Chair)

Kevin Stewart

Fellows of the Trust Michal Lewi AM Thomas E Perrigo

Valmai Symons

Geoff Moor Hon Michael Murray QC AM (Chair) John Palermo (Treasurer)

Linda Montgomery

Don Rae - Co-opted Member

Alfred Barker Raylene Button Elsa Derschow

Walter Stream

Louise Turner

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Active Volunteers

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Active Volunteers

Active Volunteers

Max Royce

Simon Watling

Avondale

East Perth Cemeteries

No 1 Pump Station

John Alexander

Brian Anderson

Barry Bryant

Marie Alexander

Shirley Babis

Helen Bryant

Mark Atkinson

Jan Barker

Marika Burke

Veronica Backshall

Nicki Blake

Terence Crawford

Dina Barrett-Lennard

Colin Caughey

Bill (William) Cutler

Luke Blanch

Robin Creswell

Diana Frylinck

Richard Boladeras

Joanne Dumaresq

Bethlyn Jarvis

Robert Brown

Terri Ellis

Keith Jarvis

Marian Byrne

Lesley Emmans

Roger Jennings

Deidre Gowland

Ian Foster

Bill (William) McEwan

Stephen Gowland

Duncan Gardiner

Maxwell Wishaw

Duayne Haeusler

Graeme Gerrans

Don Young

John Hawke

Sandra Hayward

No 8 Pump Station

Jo Johnson

Valmae Hogan

Frederick Ellis

Michelle Kerr

John James

Old Blythewood

Rob Kneebone

Hamilton Leask

Glenn Langlands

Carol Sharp

David MacKay

Gallop House

Valda Morton

Bronwen Channon

Erin Nicol

Stephanie Kirkham

Reiley Nicol

Bill Johnson

Bronwyn Nutting

Ruby Johnson

John Pratt

Anna Pederson

Kathleen Rudd

Helen Pedersen

David Shopland

Jarrahdale

Michael Sofoulis

Janice Jones

Monica Van Der Snoek

Brendan Podzivka

Ross Jones

Raymond Walters

Geraldine Taylor

Charles Kerfoot

Vince Taylor

Central Greenough

Victoria Kerfoot

Paul Baldock

David Keron

Melissa Hetherington

Ian Nice

Shane Hill

Janis Star

Maxwell Armstrong Glenn Boardman Pamela Boardman Margaret Brown Chris Corry-Thomas Sue Corry-Thomas Heather Dayman Bette (Elizabeth) Mills Lynette Oliver John Pace

Volunteer, Carolyn Sarich has visitors enthralled at Woodbridge. Photo: Sabine Albers.

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Active Volunteers

Active Volunteers

Kitchen, Woodbridge. Photo: Sabine Albers.

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Old Farm, Strawberry Hill

Ruth (Linda) Harloe

Carole Tonkinson

Audrey Heasman

St Peter's, Gilgering

Jennifer Du Boulay

Margaret Adams

Ainsley Harrison

Diane Webster

Christina Ing

Christopher Broadbent

Maureen Ellyard

Jarrod Andrews

Sharon Higgins

Donald Williams

Margaret Kuhne

Glenyse Broadbent

Halina Krapez

Ashleigh Annandale

Margaret Hoare

Judith Williams

Janet Lynn

Michael Broadbent

Faye Lemke

Linda Barton

Liam Hordyk

Old Observatory

Jennifer Marshall (dec. 2016)

Alan Fleay

Nataasha Lethbridge

Kate Bolt

Sue Johnson

Sybil McCaughey

David Fleay

Jill Lowe

Madeleine Bolt

Terry (Alan) Jones

Jennette Merrylees

Lesley Fleay

Chris Lynch

Laura Bowman

Zofia Kahl

Robert Mitchell

Malcolm Fleay

Gillian MacKenzie

Inger Brooks

George Kavanagh

Keith Roberton

Sally Fleay

Merle McAlpine

Beverley Chapman

Kerry Lewis

Marianne Chester

Roger Logan

Maxwell Chester

Peter Lunt

Faye Clay

Kevin Martin

Dave Cockburn

Brian McCrow

Jennifer Cockburn

Frank McDonald

Helen Cope

Alwyn Middleton

Brigitte Dahners

Anne Middleton

Felicity Dickinson

Clifford Moses

Angela Donnelly

Nancy Moses

Janet Evans

Narelle Pridmore

John Evans

John Radys

Andy Fehrman

Shirley Randall

Lee (Leone) Fernie

Alan Rayfield

Kenneth Fleay

Francis Rayfield

Patricia Forsyth

Gwendolyn Slater

Janet Guinery

Coralee Stokes

Melanie Bruckberger Terry Ellis Graeme Gerrans Anna Leask Hamilton Leask Robert Murray Maureen Perham Keith Roberton Liam Turner Louise Turner Peninsula Farm Alice Adamson (dec. 2017) Ginie (Virginia) Bristowe Stasia (Anastasia) Brown Bruce Carroll Krystyna Curtis Beth (Elizabeth) Dudley Jan (Janis) Duncan (dec. 2017) Alison Fox Pamella Hall

Peter Schifferli Ann Sippe Margaret Triffitt Maria Valenti John Watson Jonathan Wolf Samson House

Woodbridge Colleen Armitage (dec. 2017) Anne Ball Linda Barker Wendy Brindle Roy Brooks Eileen Brown

Wendy (Diana) Antonovsky

Linda Brown-Davies

Pamela Boardman

Sandra Cailes

Margaret Brown

Christopher Corry-Thomas

Sonja (Martha) Franks

Susan Corry-Thomas

Richard Keamy

(Toni) Patricia Crossland

Fay Moore

Elisabeth Darragh

Kerry Morgan

Alan Dayman

Hilary Silbert

Heather Dayman

Settlers Cottage

Jane Devine

Peter Scales

Suzanne Doherty

Kelly McConkey Julie McRobbie Bette (Elizabeth) Mills Lyn Oliver Theresa Putland Anne Read Keith Roberton Carolyn Sarich Helen Savage Carol Smith Roslyn Stewart Patricia Stroebel Vincent Taylor Tracey Turich Margaret Warden Heather Whykes

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Attendance at Council and Executive Committee Meetings

Appendix 4 Attendance at Council and Executive Committee Meetings Council Meetings – 6 Council meetings were held Attendance

Apology

Leave of Absence

*Dr Hugo Beckle

4

1

0

*Ms Derryn Belford

3

2

0

Ms Helen Cogan (Secretary)

5

1

0

Dr Kenneth Collins AM CitWA

5

1

0

*Hon Cheryl Edwardes AM

0

5

0

Dr Steve Errington

6

0

0

Mr Grant Godfrey

5

1

0

Mr Graham Goerke

4

2

0

Prof Jenny Gregory AM

3

3

0

Mr Max Hipkins

5

1

0

Mr Roger Jennings

4

2

0

Mr Max Kay AM CitWA (President)

5

1

0

Ms Christine Lewis

5

1

0

*Prof. Jane Lydon

3

2

0

Dr Ken Michael AC (Deputy Chair)

3

3

0

Mrs Jocelyn Mitchell

4

2

0

Colonel (Ret'd) Robert Mitchell CFD,UE (Vice President)

4

1

0

Mr Geoff Moor

4

2

0

Hon Michael Murray AM QC (Chair)

5

1

0

Mr John Palermo (Treasurer)

5

1

0

*Ms Irene Stainton

0

3

0

Prof John Stephens

4

1

0

Dr Robyn Taylor

4

1

0

Name

Executive Meetings – 8 Executive Meetings were held Attendance

Apology

Leave of Absence

Ms Helen Cogan

8

0

0

*Hon Cheryl Edwardes AM

5

3

0

Name

* Has retired or been appointed during this financial year, thus served on Council for part year only

Mr Grant Godfrey

6

2

0

Mr Graham Goerke

5

3

0

Prof Jenny Gregory AM

4

4

0

Mr Max Hipkins

7

1

0

Mr Max Kay AM CitWA

8

0

0

Ms Christine Lewis

6

2

0

Dr Ken Michael AC

6

2

0

*Colonel (Ret'd) Robert Mitchell CFD,UE

2

0

0

Hon Michael Murray AM QC

7

1

0

Mr John Palermo

6

2

0

Mr Julian Donaldson

7

1

0

* Has retired or been appointed during this financial year, thus served on Council for part year only

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Woodbridge. Photo: Sabine Albers.

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Honour and Award Recipients 2016

Special Awards 2016

Woodbridge. Photo: Sabine Albers.

Appendix 5 Honour and Award Recipients 2016 (volunteers)

Special Awards 2016

5 Year Recognition Award

10 Year Recognition Award

15 Year Recognition Award

20 Year Recognition Award

25 Year Recognition Award

Life Membership

In recognition of the support and contribution to the National Trust of Western Australia for over 5 years

In recognition of the support and contribution to the National Trust of Western Australia for over 10 years

In recognition of the support and contribution to the National Trust of Western Australia for over 15 years

In recognition of the support and contribution to the National Trust of Western Australia for over 20 years

In recognition of the support and contribution to the National Trust of Western Australia for over 25 years

In recognition of outstanding service to the National Trust of Western Australia

Name

Name

Name

Name

Mr Richard Boladeras

Mrs Colleen Armitage (dec. 2017)

Ms Kristy Bizzaca

Mrs Jean Clark

Miss Laura Bowman

Ms Ginie Bristowe

Mrs Inger Russell

Mr Ronald Facius (dec. 2017)

Dr Kenneth Collins

Hon John Cowdell AM

Ms Vyonne Geneve

Mrs Jan Duncan

Mrs Toni Crossland

Prof Jenny Gregory AM

Mr Grant Godfrey

Mrs Elisabeth Darragh

Mrs (Pam) Pamella Hall

Mr Duayne Haeusler

Ms Jennifer Du Boulay

Mr Graham Horne

Mr John Hawke

Mrs Halina Krapez

Ms Philippa Rogers

Mr Peter Lunt

Mrs Faye Lemke

Mr Michael Martin

Mrs Judith Murray

Mrs Sue Martin

Dr Anne Read

Ms Julie McRobbie

Mr Peter Scales

Mr Kado Muir

Mrs Maria Valenti

Mr John Pratt

Mrs Heather Whykes

Name Mrs Roslyn Stewart

Name Hon John Cowdell AM

Ms Helen Savage Ms Irene Stainton Mr Raymond Walters

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Classified Places and Objects

Appendix 6 Classified Places and Objects

Sikh Cremation (Cemetery) Site, Riverton. Photo: NTWA.

Seaside Flats, Albany. Photo: NTWA.

Pensioner Guard Cottage, Bassendean. Photo: NTWA.

Name of Place: Sikh Cremation (Cemetery) Site

Name of Place: Seaside Flats Albany

Name of Place: Pensioner Guard Cottage, Bassendean

Town/Location: Riverton

Town/Location: Middleton Beach

Town/Location: Bassendean

Local Government Authority: City of Canning

Local Government Authority: City of Albany

Local Government Authority: Town of Bassendean

Date of Classification: 5 September 2016

Date of Classification: 13 February 2017

Date of Classification: 13 February 2017

Photo by: Geoff Moor

Photo by: Fiona Bush

Photo by: Fiona Bush

Statement of Significance The Sikh Cemetery Site has cultural heritage significance for the following reasons:

Statement of Significance

Statement of Significance

Seaside Flats Albany, a single storey, timber structure rendered with stucco over a wire frame, with a red Colorbond roof has cultural heritage significance for the following reasons:

Pensioner Guard Cottage, Bassendean has cultural heritage significance for the following reasons:

• The place is a rare example of a site in the Perth metropolitan area that was used for cremation purposes by the Sikh community; • The place has strong associations for the Sikh community of Western Australia; • The place is important for its use as a cremation site as this activity was not generally permitted in Western Australia until the passing of the Cremations Act 1929.

Until the passing of this Act cremations only took place at Woodman’s Point Quarantine Station; • The place has importance as part of the broader history of cemeteries and religious practises associated with the disposal of the dead in Western Australia. It is closely associated with the passing of the Cremations Act 1929 and the acceptance of cremation in the wider community; and • The place has social value for the Sikh community because of its religious associations. It contributes to recognition of the Sikh community as a part of the history of Western Australia.

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• The place was one of the first and now the oldest holiday flats built by the CWA in Western Australia; • The place is associated with Western Australians' strong culture of spending their holidays at the seaside and the variety of places developed for this activity; • The place demonstrates the importance of Albany as a popular seaside destination particularly for families who lived in the Wheatbelt and Goldfields regions; • The place represents an unusual method of construction, timber frame with stucco on a wire frame, which is not well represented on heritage lists; • The place demonstrates an important component of the CWA’s philosophy: assisting disadvantaged mothers and children; • The place is highly valued by those people who stayed at the flats for their holidays; and • The place is highly valued by the people of Albany for its contribution to Albany’s image as a holiday destination.

• The place retains the last remaining intact pensioner guard cottage in the metropolitan area; • The place is associated with the administration of convicts that was enforced by the Convict Establishment following the arrival of convicts in the colony in June 1850; the pensioner guards were an important element in this administration; • The place is representative of the type of cottages that were built by convict ticket-of-leave labour for the pensioners in the various pensioner guard villages established throughout the colony during the 1850s; • The place is associated with the early development of West Guildford (later Bassendean) and the Pensioner Guard Cottage is the oldest building in Bassendean; and • The c.1893 Residence is associated with the development and expansion of West Guildford (later Bassendean) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Breakfast setting, Woodbridge. Photo: Sabine Albers.

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Appendix 7 National Trust Managed Properties 2016–2017 Metropolitan Place

Local Government Authority

Non Metropolitan Place

Local Government Authority

Artillery Drill Hall

Fremantle

Curtin Family Home

Cottesloe

* Beverley Police Quarters

Beverley

Perth

Bill Sewell Complex, Geraldton

Greater Geraldton

East Perth Cemeteries Gallop House

Nedlands

Luisini Winery

Joondalup

Avondale

* Bridgedale * Central Greenough

Beverley

Bridgetown Greater Geraldton

57 Murray Street

Perth

Old Observatory

Perth

Cliff Grange

Greater Geraldton

Old Perth Boys’ School

Perth

Clinch’s Mill

Greater Geraldton

Peninsula Farm Royal Perth Hospital * Samson House Settlers Cottage

* Cold Harbour Land

York

Perth

Collie Police Station

Collie

Fremantle

Collie Roundhouse

Collie

Bayswater

Stirling

* Cue Masonic Lodge

Stirling House

Fremantle

Ellensbrook

Wanslea

Cottesloe

Gingin Railway Station

Woodbridge

Swan

* Freehold

Golden Pipeline

Local Government Authority

Ghooli Houses

Yilgarn

Karalee Rocks

Yilgarn

Mount Charlotte Reservoir

Kalgoorlie-Boulder

* Gray’s Store

Cue

Appendix 8

Golden Pipeline Heritage

St Constantine

Heritage Appeals 2016–2017

Golden Valley Tree Farm

St Cuthbert’s Church

Halls Creek Post Office

St George’s Cathedral

Holy Trinity Church, Roebourne

St Josephs

Holy Trinity Church, York

St Luke's Gingin

Kalgoorlie Trades Hall

St Luke's Heritage Precinct

Lady Walpole Restoration

St Mary's Busselton

Maali Foundation

St Mary's Cathedral Perth

Nungarin

The National Trust of Australia (WA) administers heritage appeals to enable communities, as well as itself, to raise funds for conservation and interpretation of Western Australia’s heritage. Donations over two dollars are tax deductible. During the year $582,745 in income was generated from the National Trust’s active heritage appeals and $622,076 of appeal donation funds were spent on conserving Western Australian heritage places.

Malimup Appeal

St Mary's Leederville

Appeal Names

Matera Foundation

St Mary's Middle Swan

Monty Millar Appeal

St Matthew’s Guildford

Monumental Restoration

St Patrick's Fremantle

Museum Freedom Tolerance

St Paul's Community Hall

New Norcia Benedictine Monastery

St Peters Anglican Vic Park

Ngalia Depot Spring

St Peters Church, Gilgering

Norman & Beard Organ

St Thomas Parish Heritage Appeal Claremont

Augusta-Margaret River Gingin Greater Geraldton

Greenough Hotel

Greater Geraldton

Greenough Warden’s House

Greater Geraldton

Hydro Power Station

Dardanup

Israelite Bay Telegraph Station

Esperance

* Jarrahdale Heritage Park

Serpentine-Jarrahdale

Kylie Dam Leonora Land

West Arthur Leonora

No 1 Pump Station

Mundaring

No 3 Pump Station

Cunderdin

Moir Homestead

Esperance

No 4 Pump Station

Merredin

Old Blythewood

Murray

No 8 Pump Station & House Poole Street Bridge Weir Village Road Houses

Coolgardie Northam Mundaring

* Mangowine

* Old Farm, Strawberry Hill * Parkwater * Pinjarra Courthouse

Albany Cowaramup Murray

Rosella House

Greater Geraldton

* St James’ Church

Greater Geraldton

St Peter’s, Glebe Gilgering

Engagement with people is a key pillar of the work of the National Trust. Photo: Sabine Albers.

York

Applecross Primary School Avondale Conservation Bibbulmun Track Bicentennial National Trail Budadee Foundation

* Stone Barn & Cottage

Greater Geraldton

Busselton Settlement

* Temperance Lodge

Greater Geraldton

Cape to Cape Trail

The Hermitage

Greater Geraldton

* Walkaway Cemetery (part) Warden Finnerty’s Residence

Greater Geraldton Coolgardie

* Wesleyan Church

Greater Geraldton

Whitby Falls

Serpentine-Jarrahdale

Wonnerup

Busselton

York Courthouse Complex * Freehold

York

Christ Church Claremont City of Perth Heritage Appeal Commonwealth Walkways Appeal East Perth Cemeteries Monuments Gabbi Kylie Foundation Geraldton Catholic Cathedral Golden Jubilee Appeal

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Old Court House Museum Peninsula Hotel Maylands Regal Theatre Heritage Sacred Heart Highgate Sacred Heart Beagle Bay St Aidan's Claremont St Andrews Perth St Columba’s Church South Perth

Temple David Heritage Appeal Terraced House Queen Victoria Thomas Peel Archaeology Treemission Tuart Forrest Appeal Two Feet & Heart Beat WA Rowing Club Memorabilia WARC Boatshed

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FINANCIALS Independent Auditor’s Report

Statement of Financial Position

Certification of Performance Indicators

Statement of Changes in Equity

Key Performance Indicators

Statement of Cash Flows Notes to the Financial Statements

Certification of Financial Statements Statement of Comprehensive Income

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